Lionel Cranfield | |
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| Lord High Treasurer | |
| In office 1621 – 25 April 1624 | |
| Preceded by | Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester |
| Succeeded by | James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1575 London, England |
| Died | 6 August 1645 |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Sheppard Anne Brett |
| Children | Martha Cranfield, Countess of Monmouth Elizabeth Cranfield, Lady Sheffield Countess of Mulgrave Mary Cranfield Gertrude Howard James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex Frances Cranfield, Countess of Dorset Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex Edward Cranfield Susanna Cranfield |
| Occupation | mercer |
Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex (1575 – 6 August 1645) was an English merchant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranfield.[1][2]
- ^ M. Prestwich, Cranfield: Politics and Profits Under the Early Stuarts. The Career of Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1966).
- ^ A. Davidson & S. Healy, Cranfield, Sir Lionel (1575–1645), of Wood Street, London; later of Chelsea, Mdx.; Copt Hall, Essex and Milcote, Warws., in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, (Cambridge University Press 2010), History of Parliament online.