Henry Lennard (1570 – 8 August 1616) was an English politician and Baron of Dacre.

Life

Lennard was the son of Margaret Fiennes, who was Baroness Dacre, and

Sampson Lennard Sampson Lennard ( 1544 – 20 September 1615), of Chevening in Kent, was an English Member of Parliament who represented an unusually large number of different constituencies during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.N.M.S., 'Lennard ...

and was baptised on 25 March 1570 at

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. Lennard took part in the

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in 1596 and was knighted by in June 1596 Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, after the capture of the city. Lennard was a Member of Parliament (MP) for West Looe in 1597–1598. He successfully claimed the barony of Dacre on his mother's death in 1612. Lennard married, in 1589, Chrysogona Baker, daughter of Richard Baker of

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. They had seven children: Richard, Fynes, Edward, Margaret, Philadelphia, Pembroke, and Barbara. Margaret married Annesley Wildgoose, Philadelphia married Thomas Parker, Pembroke married William, Lord Cobham, and Barbara married

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. Lennard lived extravagantly and was forced to sell some of his lands. He died of a fever on 8 August 1616, and was buried at Chevening the next day. His widow was buried 30 September 1616. He was succeeded as baron by his son

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1570 births 1616 deaths Members of the Parliament of England for West Looe 17th-century English nobility English MPs 1597–1598 16th-century English nobility 12 People from Chevening, Kent {{England-baron-stub