LEVESON, Richard (1570-1605), of Lilleshall, Salop and Trentham, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. 1570, o.s. of Walter Leveson by Anne, da. of Sir Andrew Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Salop. m. 13 Dec. 1587, Margaret, da. of Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, s.p. Kntd. 1596; suc. fa. 1602.Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 4), xi. 154; DNB; Genealogist, i. 385; J. S. Corbett, Successors of Drake, 257; CSP Dom. 1601-3, p. 259.

Offices Held

J.p.q. Salop and Staffs. by 1594; custos rot. Salop 1596.

V.-adm. N. Wales 1593 – 1601; adm. of the narrow seas 1600, v.-adm. of England 1604.PRO Index 4208, f. 38; EHR, xxiii. 756; Clowes, Royal Navy, i. 512, n. 3; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 92.

Parlimentarian

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

Main residences: Lilleshall, Salop; Trentham, Staffs.

Author

J.J.C.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

LEVESON, Richard (1570-1605)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

Image