Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, 1st Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Henry Slingsby, of Scriven, near Knaresborough, co York, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, and of Red House, near Marston Moor, in that county (died 17 December 1634, aged 74) by Frances, daughter of William Vavasour, of Weston, co York, was born 14 January 1601/2; sometime (1619-21) of Queen's Coll., Cambridge, and was created a Baronet [S] by patent dated at Stirling, 2 March 1637/8, not, however, recorded in the Great Seal Register [S] with rem. to 'heirs male', and with presumably a grant of land in Nova Scotia, oh which, however, he appears to have never had seizin. He had shortly before entertained the King at Red House, in whose he was a Colonel, and to whose cause he steadfastly adhered. He was M.P. for Knaresborough, 1625, April to May 1640, and again 1640 (Long Parliament), till disabled in December 1642, and was one of he fifty-nine members who opposed the attainder of the Earl of Strafford. He refused to compound, and in 1651 his estate was ordered to be sold. In 1655, being implicated in a Royalist rising, he was imprisoned at Hull. He married 7 July 1631, at Kensington, Barbara, 1st daughter of Thomas (Belasyse), 1st Viscount Fauconberg, by Barbara, daughter of Sir Henry Cholmley, of Roxby, co York. She, who was baptized 11 October 1609, at Coxwold, in that county, died in London 31 December 1641, and was buried at St Martin's in the Fields. He, having entered into a scheme for the landing of Charles II at Hull, was executed by the then Government, 8 June 1658, on Tower Hill, being however, buried with his ancestors, at Knaresborough."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1900; Vol. II; page 430; findagrave + pictures... ;

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