Henry Widdrington (died 1623)

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Sir Henry Widdrington (died 1623) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1622.

Widdrington was the son of Edward Widdrington. He succeeded to the estates of his father in 1592. He was deputy warden and keeper of Ridsdale under Sir Robert Carey. As Knight Marshal of Berwick-upon-Tweed he was criticised for allowing bankrupts to shelter from the law by buying the offices of soldiers in the garrison from him. [1]

At the Union of the Crowns, he was knighted at Widdrington on 9 April 1603. [2] He was Captain of Tynemouth Castle until he was replaced by William Selby in 1606. [3]

In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Northumberland. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1606. He was re-elected MP for Northumberland in 1614 and 1621. [4]

Widdrington married Mary Curwen, daughter of Sir Nicholas Curwen. [4] His son William was created Baron Widdrington.

After he died in 1623, the Privy Council of Scotland noted that there was now nobody taking care of justice on the borders of Scotland, then known as the "Middle Shires", particularly in Tynedale and Redesdale. [5]

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References

  1. Linda Levy Peck, Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England (Routledge, 1993), 117–118.
  2. Edward Arber, An English Garner, vol. 8 (Archibald Constable, 1896), p. 499.
  3. M. S. Giuseppi, HMC Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury, 18 (London, 1940), pp. 366–67.
  4. 1 2 C H Hunter Blair 'The Sheriffs of Northumberland', Archaeologia Aeliana: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities
  5. Melros Papers (Edinburgh, 1837), pp. 586-7.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Northumberland
1604–1621
With: Ralph Grey 1604–1611
Sir George Selby 1614
William Selby 1614
Sir William Grey
Succeeded by