Thomas Merry

Thomas Merry (about 1605 to 1682) was an English landowner, mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. He was the son of Sir Thomas Merry of The Winns, Walthamstow, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1626. He inherited the Gopsall estates in 1654 and held a series of local offices in Leicestershire, and in 1660 he was elected Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in the Convention Parliament. He was an active member of the Green Ribbon Club and a friend of Titus Oates. John Aubrey described him in 1682 as a great algebraist and a great Whig, and noted that his lost papers had treated all of Euclid, particularly the tenth book, in a shorter and clearer manner than had yet been done.