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| term_end = 1661 or 1662
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| predecessor = [[Thomas Greenhill]]
| successor = [[Edward Winter (British administrator)|Sir Edward Winter]]
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'''Sir Thomas Chambers''' or '''Chamber''' (died 1692)<ref>'Spelthorne Hundred: Feltham', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General; Ashford, East Bedfont With Hatton, Feltham, Hampton With Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 314-319. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp314-319.</ref> was an [[Kingdom of England|English]] administrator and factor of the [[Honourable East India Company]] who served as the Agent of Madras from 1658 to 1661 or 1662. His family background is reported as [[Wolsty]] in Cumberland. <ref name="Antiquary">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/antiquarymagazin43londuoft#page/66/mode/2up|title=Antiquary, a magazine devoted to the study of the past|date=1905|volume=43|work=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=Elliott Stock|page=66|accessdate=6 October 2016|location=London}}</ref>

== Tenure as Agent of Madras ==
As soon as Thomas Chambers became Agent, he was instructed by the authorities in England to make decisions based on a majority vote and not on his private discretion. In the case of a stalemate, the Agent was allowed to cast the deciding vote.<ref name="indian_ink">{{cite book | title=Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yyaltJW0eOQC&q=thomas+chambers+madras+1661&pg=RA1-PA77| last=Ogborn|first=Miles| year=2007| pages=77| publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn = 9780226620428| id=0226620417}}</ref>

==Later life and family==
In 1670 Chambers bought the park and manor of [[Hanworth]], Middlesex, from the heir of [[Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington]]. His son Thomas (1677–1750) married Mary Berkeley, daughter of [[Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author2=Katharine Baetjer|title=British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZzL3ey6gDYC&pg=PA28|year=2009|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-348-7|page=28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/transactionsoflo00londuoft#page/185/mode/1up|title=Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society|date=1856|volume=I|work=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=J. H. and J. Parker|page=185|accessdate=6 October 2016|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kindred.stanford.edu/#/kin/full/none/none/I8966//|title=Kindred Britain - Thomas Chambers|work=[[Stanford University]]|accessdate=6 October 2016}}</ref> In the next generation Mary Chambers, heiress to Sir Thomas, married [[Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere]].<ref name="Antiquary"/>

== References ==
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Thomas Chambers (colonial administrator) - Revision history

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