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Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet

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43: 128:, was also a member, and held a number of other senior offices during the Commonwealth.) Strickland sat in the restored Long Parliament in 1659, but apparently took no part in its proceedings and (unlike his brother) seems to have retired entirely from public affairs after the Restoration, though he was not molested by the authorities. 81:, to whom he was distantly related (Strickland's mother was a Wentworth), although he is not one of the MPs who was listed as voting against Strafford's attainder. Strickland was a strict Puritan, and after Strafford's death he moved firmly towards the Parliamentary cause, although 163: 100:. (An opposition pamphleteer described him as "for settling the Protector anew in all those things for which the king was cut off". He also spoke frequently in favour of the punishment of 138:
He was married twice – on 18 June 1622 to Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby; and, after his first wife's death in 1629 to Frances Finch, daughter of
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A. Gooder (ed.) "The Parliamentary Representation of Yorkshire, 1258–1832" (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, 1935)
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Lord Hawkesbury, "Some East Riding Families" (Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, 1899)
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He was knighted in 1630, and in 1640 was elected to Parliament as member for
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on 29 July 1641, perhaps hoping to sway him towards support for the Crown.
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Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, 1593–1641: A Revaluation
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Sir William Strickland was the eldest son of Walter Strickland of
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G R Park, "The Parliamentary Representation of Yorkshire" (1886)
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Victoria County History of the East Riding of Yorkshire
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though he seems not to have qualified as a barrister.
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Boynton Hall today – seat of the Strickland baronets
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William Strickland (disambiguation)
Member of Parliament
English Civil War

Boynton
East Riding of Yorkshire
Boynton Hall
Queens' College, Cambridge
Gray's Inn
Hedon
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
the king
baronet
Long Parliament
Cromwell
James Naylor
Rump
Barebone's Parliament
1654
1656
Cromwell's House of Peers
Walter Strickland
Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of Yorkshire
Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea
Thomas
"Strickland, Walter (STRT614W)"


C.V. Wedgwood
Harleian Miscellany

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