Sir Henry Crispe (by 1505 – 21 August 1575) was an English landowner and politician.

Family

Henry Crispe was the son of John Crispe of Quex, Birchington, Kent.

Career

In 1544 he fought with the army in France when it captured the port of Boulogne. He was appointed

Sheriff of Kent The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrum ...

for 1546 and was knighted in 1553. He was a

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(MP) for Dover in March 1553 and of

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later in that same year. He was returned the member for

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in 1558.Crispe, Henry (by 1505-75), of Birchington, Isle of Thanet, Kent, History of Parliament
Retrieved 21 August 2013.

Marriages and issue

Crispe married firstly Katherine Scott, the daughter of

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Scot's Hall Scot's Hall (or Scott's Hall) was a country house in Smeeth, between Ashford and Folkestone in southeast England. It was the property of a gentry family, the Scotts. The first known resident was Sir John Scott (born 1436), who married Caroline ...

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, by whom he had a son, Nicholas. He married secondly Anne Haselhurst, the daughter and coheir of George Haselhurst, by whom he had four sons and two daughters. Crispe was succeeded by his second son John, his eldest son, Nicholas, having predeceased him in 1564.

References

1575 deaths Members of the Parliament of England for Dover High Sheriffs of Kent English MPs 1553 (Edward VI) English MPs 1553 (Mary I) English MPs 1558 Year of birth uncertain {{16thC-England-MP-stub