Sir Thomas Strickland, 2nd Baronet ( 1639 – 20 November 1684) was an English politician who sat in the

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in 1659. Strickland was son of Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet of

Boynton, East Riding of Yorkshire Boynton is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is approximately west of the town of Bridlington and lies on the B1253 road. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 UK c ...

, and his second wife Frances Finch, daughter of

Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea (13 June 1578 – 4 November 1639) was an English peerage, peer and Member of Parliament. Early life Finch was the third, but second surviving, son of Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Finch, 1st ...

. In 1659, he was elected member of parliament for

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and for

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in the

Third Protectorate Parliament The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons. It was a bicameral Parliament, with an Upper House having a po ...

and chose to sit for Beverley. In 1662 he was commissioned as

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of the Northallertonshire Regiment, North Riding Militia.Major Robert Bell Turton, ''The History of the North York Militia, now known as the Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)'', Leeds: Whitehead, 1907/Stockton-on-Tees: Patrick & Shotton, 1973, ISBN 0-903169-07-X, p. 24. He succeeded to the

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and

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on the death of his father in 1673. Strickland married Elizabeth Pile, daughter of Sir Francis Pile, 2nd Baronet of

Compton Beauchamp Compton Beauchamp is a hamlet and civil parish southeast of Shrivenham in the Vale of White Horse, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's populat ...

, Berkshire, on 19 November 1659. They had ten children: * Jane Strickland (died 1662) * Elizabeth Strickland (died 1664) *

Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet of Boynton, Yorkshire (March 1665 – 12 May 1724) was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1689 and 1724. He was also a notable racehorse own ...

(1665–1724) * Walter Strickland (1667–1730) * Frances Strickland, who married Sir Richard Osbaldeston in 1679 * Thomas Strickland (born 1669, died young) * Anne Strickland, who married John Smith, MP,

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and

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* Admiral Sir Charles Strickland (1672–1724) * Nathaniel Strickland * Frances Strickland

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* J Foster, ''Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire'' (1874) 1630s births 1684 deaths Strickland, Thomas, 2nd Baronet English MPs 1659 North York Militia officers {{1659-England-MP-stub