Sir Daniel Fleming (1633–1701), was an English antiquarian and politician.

Life

Fleming was born on 25 July 1633, the eldest son of William Fleming of Coniston, North

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, and Rydal, Westmoreland, by Alice, eldest daughter of Roger Kirkby of

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, Lancashire. He was educated at

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, which he entered in 1650, and

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. By the death of his father in 1653 Fleming inherited considerable estates in the neighbourhood of Rydal, for which he paid heavy fines to the parliament. At the

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he was appointed sheriff of

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. He was a constant correspondent of Secretary Joseph Williamson: his letters, which went to the

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, afford a lively picture of the state of affairs in Cumberland and Westmorland during the latter half of the 17th century. They exhibit him as a staunch supporter of the

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, and enemy alike of the Protestant dissenter and the Roman Catholic. He regretted the release of

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in 1666 as likely to discourage the justices from acting against the Quakers, and gave credence to reports of their burning "steeple houses". He was knighted on 15 May 1681 at

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, and in the parliament of 1685–1687 sat as member for ; he opposed the

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. He occupied his leisure in antiquarian researches, chiefly in connection with his native county, and left some manuscript collections, which were edited for the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian Society under the title "Description of the County of Westmoreland". He died in 1701. Fleming is said by Thomas Wotton to have been an assistant in the annotation of

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's ''Britannia''; no acknowledgment, however, is to be found in the preface to

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's edition. It was at Fleming's suggestion that

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e left his collection of coins of the Roman era to the

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Family

Fleming married in 1655 Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Fletcher of Hutton, Cumberland, who was killed at Rowton Heath on the side of the king in 1645. His eldest son,

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, created a baronet 4 October 1705, died in 1736, and was succeeded by his brother

Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet (1667 – 2 July 1747) was a British churchman. A member of the old Westmorland family, Fleming was the fifth son of Sir Daniel Le Fleming of Rydal Hall. Along with his three brothers, he was educated at Sedbergh ...

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References

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