Family and Education
s. and h. of Sir Walter Strickland† (d.1407/8) of Sizergh by his 1st w. Margaret Lathom, niece of Ralph, Lord Dacre (d.1375); er. bro. of Walter I*. m. Feb. 1405, Mabel (d. aft. 1455), da. of Sir John Bethom (Beetham)† (d.c.1420) of Beetham, Westmld. by his 1st w. Margaret, sis. of Sir William Tunstall of Thurland, Lancs., 2s. inc. Walter II*, 3da. Kntd. by 1 Apr. 1418.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Westmld. 1419, 1422, 1425, 1433, 1435, 1442, 1450.

Keeper of Inglewood forest, Cumb. 26 July 1403 – 27 Feb. 1407.

Escheator, Cumb. and Westmld. 9 Dec. 1408 – 7 Nov. 1409, Beds. and Bucks. 13 Nov. 1412 – 10 Nov. 1413.

Sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 4 Nov. 1409 – 29 Nov. 1410, 6 Nov. 1413 – 12 Nov. 1414.

Commr. Beds., Cumb., Westmld., Yorks. July 1413 – Nov. 1448.

J.p. Westmld. 24 June 1419 – d.

Jt. steward (with his son, Walter II), of estates of Thomas Daniell*, chamberlain of Chester, in Kendale, Westmld. 5 Nov. 1446 – d.; of George Neville, Lord Latimer’s manor of Heversham, Westmld. by 1447-c.1448. P. Booth, ‘Landed Soc. in Cumb. and Westmld.’ (Leicester Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1997), 58–59; idem, ‘Men Behaving Badly’, in The Fifteenth Cent. III ed. Clark, 99.

Main residence: Sizergh, Westmld.
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