Thomas Bache (died c.1410) was an Anglo-Italian cleric and judge who held high office in Ireland in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries,serving one term as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland. He also served for three terms as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
The Bache family came originallyfrom Genoa. They had a long-standing connection with the English Court: forseveral decadestwo "merchants of Genoa", who werebothnamed AntonioBache, andwere presumably father and son, supplied the Royal Household with spices and other luxuries, and also loaned the English Crown substantial sums of money. Thomas was almost certainly a member ofthis family although his exact relationship with the two Antoniosis unclear.
Thomas entered the Church and served as a Crown official inEngland in an unspecified capacity, before coming to Ireland in thelate 1360s. He did not reach the highestranks of the Church, but hewasappointedArchdeacon of Dublin, then Archdeacon of Meath; he was also given the livings of Kilberry, County Meath, and Brington, Northamptonshire.
He achievedhigh officein the politicaland judicial spheres, being appointedChancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland in 1376, and Lord Treasurer 1400–1402. He was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in 1380, andbecame Chief Baron the following year. He was twice superseded but thenreappointed as Chief Baron, before retiring for good in 1405. He also served as Deputy to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1398. He probablydied in 1410.