Sir Richard Lucy, 1st Baronet

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Sir Richard Lucy, 1st Baronet (c. 1592 – 6 April 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1658.

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Family

Lucy was the son of Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park and his wife Constance Kingsmill daughter of Sir Richard Kingsmill of High Clere, Hampshire. His grandfather Sir Thomas Lucy was an MP and is noted for prosecuting William Shakespeare. Lucy was knighted on 8 January 1617 and created baronet of Broxbourn in the County of Hertford on 11 March 1618. [1] Lucy's brother Thomas was also an MP, while his brother William was Bishop of St David's [1]

Lucy married firstly Elizabeth West, widow of Robert West and daughter of Sir Henry Cock of Broxbourn. Their son Kingsmill succeeded to the baronetcy.

Lucy married secondly Rebecca Chapman, widow of Sir Thomas Playters. After Lucy's death, she married a third time to Sir Rowland Lytton of Knebworth.

Political career

In 1647, Lucy was elected Member of Parliament for Old Sarum in the Long Parliament and sat until 1653 through the Rump Parliament. In 1654 he was elected MP for Hertfordshire in the First Protectorate Parliament and was re-elected in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain, Volume 3
  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 Old Sarum
1647–1653
With: Hon. Robert Cecil
Succeeded by
Not represented in the Barebones Parliament
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire
1654–1658
With: Henry Lawrence 1654
John Wittewrong 1654–1658
The Earl of Salisbury 1654–1658
Thomas Nicholl 1654–1658
Sir John Gore 1656–1658
Rowland Lytton 1656–1658
Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
(of Broxbourn)
1618–1667
Succeeded by
Kingsmill Lucy