Richard Strode (died 1581)

Richard Strode (22 May 1528 – 5 August 1581), of Newnham, in the parish of Plympton St Mary in Devon, was an English Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle in 1553 and 1559.[1][2]

Richard Strode
Born	(1528-05-22)May 22, 1528
Died	August 5, 1581(1581-08-05) (aged 53)
Nationality	English
Spouse(s)	Frances Cromwell
Children	William Strode
Parent(s)	William Strode Elizabeth Courtenay

Arms of Strode of Newnham in Devon: Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable.

Family

Born in 1528, Richard Strode was the eldest son of William Strode of Newnham, Devon and Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Courtenay.[1]

Career

Strode served as escheator for Devon and Cornwall from 1565–1556.[1]

He died 5 August 1581,[3] two years after his father, leaving landed property worth over £60 per annum to his son and heir, William, then aged nineteen.[1]

Marriages and issue

Strode married, 11 November 1560, Frances (d. 7 February 1562), daughter of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour by whom he had a son:[1]

• William Strode (1562–1637)[4]

Notes

1. Fuidge 1981.
2. Colby 1872, p. 278.
3. Vivian 1895, p. 718.
4. Vivian 1895, pp. 718–719.

References

• Colby, Frederic Thomas, ed. (1872). The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620. Publications of the Harleian Society. VI. London: Harleian Society.
• Fuidge, N.M.; Hasler, P.W. (1981). "Strode, Richard (1528-81), of Newnham in Plympton St. Mary, Devon". In Hasler, P.W. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603. historyofparliamentonline.org.
• Vivian, J.L. (1895). The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, to 1620. With additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: Henry S. Eland.

External links

• Fuidge, N.M. (1981). "Strode, Richard (1528-81), of Newnham in Plympton St. Mary, Devon". In Hasler, P.W. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603. at historyofparliamentonline.org