Richard Lucy (fl
Richard Lucy may refer to: *Richard Lucy (1619–1677), landowner and politician, MP for Warwickshire, and for Yarmouth *Sir Richard Lucy, 1st Baronet (1592–1667), English politician, MP for Old Sarum, and for Hertfordshire * Richard Lucy (fl. 1563), MP for Brackley Brackley is a market town and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, bordering Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, from Oxford and from Northampton. Historically a market town based on the wool and lace trade, it was built on the inters ...

Richard Lucy (1619–1677)
Richard Lucy (1619 – 21 December 1677) of Charlecote Park, Warwickshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1653. Life Lucy was the third of the six sons of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote and his wife Alice Spencer of Claverden, Warwickshire. He matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford on 17 September 1634, aged 14. From 1637 to 1640, he travelled abroad. He was Sheriff of Warwickshire from 1646 to 1647. He was a student of Gray's Inn in 1652. He inherited Charlecote Park in 1658 after the death of his two elder brothers, Spencer and Richard. In 1653, Lucy was nominated Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in the Barebones Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Warwickshire in 1654 for the First Protectorate Parliament and in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. He succeeded to the estate of Charlecote on the death of his brother in 1658. In 1659 he was elected MP for Warwickshire and for Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) and chose to ...
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Sir Richard Lucy, 1st Baronet
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. 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. Lucy's brother Thomas was also an MP, while his brother William was Bishop of St David's 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 Par ...
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Richard Lucy (fl
Richard Lucy may refer to: *Richard Lucy (1619–1677), landowner and politician, MP for Warwickshire, and for Yarmouth *Sir Richard Lucy, 1st Baronet (1592–1667), English politician, MP for Old Sarum, and for Hertfordshire * Richard Lucy (fl. 1563), MP for Brackley Brackley is a market town and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, bordering Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, from Oxford and from Northampton. Historically a market town based on the wool and lace trade, it was built on the inters ...