Sir Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet (ca. 1600 April 1660) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.

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Early life

Lee was the son of Sir Humphrey Lee, 1st Baronet of Langley and Acton Burnell, Shropshire, and his wife Margaret Corbett, daughter of Richard Corbett of Stoke, justice of the King's Bench. [1]

Career

In November 1640, Lee was elected Member of Parliament for Shropshire in the Long Parliament. [2] He was disabled from sitting in parliament on 6 September 1642 for executing a Commission of Array after it was declared illegal. He suffered for his support of the King and had to compound for his estate for £3719. [1]

Personal life

Lee married Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Sir Edward Allen, alderman of London. They had two daughters Rachael who married Ralph Cleaton and Mary who married Sir Edward Smythe, 1st Baronet. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
  2. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp.  229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Shropshire
1640–1642
With: Sir Richard Newport
Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Humphry Lee
Baronet
(of Langley)
1831–1660
Extinct