Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln

Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln (1568 – 15 January 1619) was an English peer, styled 11th Baron Clinton from 1585 to 1616.

He was educated at Oxford University, from which he had his MA in 1588, and represented the constituencies of Lincolnshire in 1601 and Great Grimsby from 1604 to 1610. In the latter year, he entered the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration as Baron Clinton de Say. Before being removed to the Upper House on 14 February 1610, Thomas Lord Clinton was a member of the Lower, serving as an English representative in the Anglo-Scottish Union Commission established in June, 1604.

He was the son of Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, and Lady Catherine Hastings, a daughter of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, and Catherine Pole. He inherited the earldom in 1616.

He married c. 1584 Elizabeth Knyvett and had:

He died in Tattershall.

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