LEVESON, Sir Richard (1570-1605), of Lilleshall Lodge, Salop; Trentham and Parton, Staffs. and Bethnal Green, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 1570, C142/283/90. o.s. of Walter Leveson† and his 1st w. Anne, da. of Sir Andrew Corbet† of Moreton Corbet, Salop. N and Q, cxcvi. 63. educ. vol. aboard Ark Royal, 1588. R.W. Kenny, Elizabeth’s Adm. 143. m. lic. 13 Dec. 1587, Margaret (d.1642), da. of Charles Howard†, 1st earl of Nottingham, 1ch. d.v.p.; London Mar. Lics. ed. J. Foster, 839; HMC Hatfield, xvii. 347. 1da. illegit. with Mary, da. of Sir Edward Fitton† of Gawsworth, Cheshire and w. of John Lougher. C78/250/11. Kntd. 27 June 1596; S. and E. Usherwood, Counter-Armada, 147. suc. fa. 1602. d. 2 Aug. 1605. sig. Richard Leveson.

Offices Held

V.-adm. N. Wales 1592–d.; NLW, Bodewryd docs. 98; HCA 49/106, packet A, no. 64. j.p. Salop and Staffs. by 1593–d.; Staffs. Q. Sess. Rolls, III ed. S.A.H. Burne (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), 54; Staffs. Q. Sess. Rolls, V, 261–2; Hatfield House, ms 278; C66/1620. dep. lt. Salop 1602. Staffs. RO, D593/S/2/1.

Capt. RN, 1596 – 97, adm. Narrow Seas 1598 – 1601, 1603, Irish sqdn. Oct.-Dec. 1601, Monson’s Naval Tracts I ed. M. Oppenheim (Navy Recs. Soc. xxii, 358; Monson Naval Tracts II (Navy Recs. Soc. xxiii), 21, 89, 96; APC, 1600–1, p. 344; 1601–4, pp. 384, 451. Anglo-Dutch fleet 1602, fleet sent to Spain 1605; Harl. Misc. iii. 425. lt. of Admty. 1604–d. CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 92. separator

Gent. of privy chamber 1603–?d.; Harl. 6166, f. 68v; CJ, i. 197a. member, earl of Nottingham’s embassy, Spain 1605. NLW, Carreglwyd ms I/699.

Parlimentarian

LEVESON, Sir Richard (1570-1605), of Lilleshall Lodge, Salop; Trentham and Parton, Staffs. and Bethnal Green, Mdx.

Main residences: Lilleshall Lodge, Salop and Trentham and Parton, Staffs.; Bethnal Green, Mdx.

Author

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

LEVESON, Sir Richard (1570-1605)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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