Richard Strode (22 May 1528 – 5 August 1581), of Newnham, in the parish of

Plympton St Mary Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Ply ...

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, was an English

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for

Plympton Erle Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient Stannary, stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down riv ...

in 1553 and 1559. He later served as escheator for Devon and Cornwall from 1565–1566. He was the eldest son of William Strode of Newnham, Devon and Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Courtenay. He married, on 11 November 1560, Frances (died 7 February 1562), daughter of

Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, KB ( – 4 July 1551) was an English nobleman. He was the only son of the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex ( – 1540) and Elizabeth Wyckes (d. 1529). Gregory's father Thomas Cromwell ros ...

and Elizabeth Seymour by whom he had a son: William Strode (1562–1637) Strode died on 5 August 1581, two years after his father, leaving landed property worth over £60 ''per annum'' to his son and heir, William, then aged nineteen.

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* * * 1528 births 1581 deaths Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Devon English MPs 1553 (Edward VI) English MPs 1559 Place of death missing Politicians from Plymouth, Devon {{16thC-England-MP-stub