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English politician
Sir Henry Stapylton, 1st Baronet (
c. 1617 - 26 March 1679) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons in 1648 and 1660.
Stapylton was the son of
Brian Stapylton and his wife Frances Slingsby, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven.
[1]
In 1648, Stapylton was elected
Member of Parliament for
Boroughbridge in the
Long Parliament
[2] but was excluded by the end of the year under
Pride's Purge .
In 1660, Stapylton was elected MP for Boroughbridge in the
Convention Parliament .
[3] In 1660 he was created
baronet of Myton.
[4] In 1663 he was commissioned as
Colonel of the
Richmondshire Regiment, North Riding Militia .
[5]
Stapylton married Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of
Conyers Darcy, 1st Earl of Holderness . His son
Bryan succeeded him in the baronetcy.
[4]
^ Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1903),
Complete Baronetage volume 3 (1649-1664) , vol. 3, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, p. 49, retrieved 13 April 2019
^
Willis, Browne (1750).
Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp.
229 –239.
^
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
^
a
b
William Betham ,
The Baronetage of England Volume 2
^ 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.