Sir Richard Gargrave (1575–1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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at various times between 1597 and 1609.
Gargrave was the son of
Sir Cotton Gargrave and his second wife Agnes Waterton, daughter of Thomas Waterton of Walton. He was at
Peterhouse, Cambridge
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in about 1591 and at
Inner Temple
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in 1591. He succeeded to the family estates worth £3,500 p.a when his elder half-brother
[ History of Parliament Online - Richard Gargrave]
/ref> Thomas Gargrave was executed for the murder of a servant boy. The estates consisted of eleven manors and other property. In 1597, he was elected Member of Parliament
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for Aldborough. He was a J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire and was knighted in 1603. From 1604 to 1605 he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire
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. He was elected MP for Yorkshire
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in 1606 when Francis Clifford was ennobled.[
Gargrave was given to drinking and gambling. To fund his extravagance he gradually disposed of all his lands. "He who could once ride on his own land from ]Wakefield
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to Doncaster
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, was reduced at last to travel to London with the packhorses, and was found dead in an old hostelry, with his head upon a pack-saddle," wrote Richard Vickerman Taylor in his ''Yorkshire Anecdotes''. Echoed the genealogical publisher John Burke: "The memory of his extravagance and his vices yet lingers about Kingsley Kingsley may refer to:
People
* Kingsley (given name)
* Kingsley (surname)
Places Australia
* Kingsley, Western Australia
Canada
* Rural Municipality of Kingsley No. 124, Saskatchewan
England
* Kingsley, Cheshire
* Kingsley, Hampshire
*Kingsley ...
."[ Mary married Sir ]Robert Carr
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of Sleaford.
References
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1575 births
1638 deaths
English MPs 1597–1598
English MPs 1604–1611
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Members of the Inner Temple
High Sheriffs of Yorkshire