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Family and Education
b. 1 Jan. 1600, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Strickland† of Sizergh Castle and 2nd w. Margaret (d. 27 June 1632), da. of Sir Nicholas Curwen† of Workington, Cumb.E351/431; H. Hornyold, Fam. of Strickland of Sizergh, 106-7, 111. educ. Trinity Camb. Easter 1615.Al. Cant. m. 10 Jan. 1619, Margaret, da. and coh. of Sir William Alford† of Meaux Abbey, Yorks., 3s. 1da.Hornyold, Strickland of Sizergh, 117. suc. fa. 19 June 1612;C142/332/157; Hornyold, Strickland of Sizergh, 106. Kntd. Nov. 1641;Fairfax Corresp. ed. Johnson, ii. 269. bur. 14 Apr. 1671.Hornyold, Strickland of Sizergh, 117.
Offices Held

Local: commr. subsidy, Westmld. 1624.C212/22/23. J.p. 25 June 1624-c.Sept. 1626, by Oct. 1660–d.;C231/4, f. 167v; C220/9/4. Yorks. (E. Riding) 20 Feb. 1636-aft. 1641;C231/5, p. 195. N. Riding 25 Mar. 1641 – aft.Mar. 1643, by Oct. 1660–d.C231/5, p. 439; C220/9/4; N. Riding QS Recs. ed. J.C. Atkinson (N. Riding Rec. Soc. iv), 233. Commr. sewers, E. Riding 5 Dec. 1634-aft. June 1641.C181/4, f. 189v; C181/5, ff. 41v, 166, 198. Lt.-col. militia ft. N. Riding 18 Sept. 1638–6 Apr. 1640;Cumb. RO (Kendal), Strickland ms vol. 1608–1700, N30 Car. I; HMC 5th Rep. 331. col. 6 Apr. 1640-aft. July 1642.Cumb. RO (Kendal), Strickland ms vol. 1608–1700, N33 Car. I; Belvoir, Original letters 1641–52, QZ.22, f. 11; HMC 5th Rep. 330, 331. Dep. lt. 10 Aug. 1640 – aft.July 1641, c.Aug. 1660–d.;Cumb. RO (Kendal), Strickland ms vol. 1608–1700, N36 Car. I.; HMC 5th Rep. 331; SP29/11, f. 245; H. B. MacCall, Story of the Fam. of Wandesforde, 291. Westmld. 2 Apr. 1642–?LJ iv. 694a. Commr. embezzlement inquiry, York 9 Aug. 1641;Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 3, p. 65. further subsidy, N. Riding 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660, 1666; assessment, 1642, 1661, 1664, 1666;SR. array (roy.), Yorks. 18 June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133. Custos rot. E. Riding 5 Aug. 1642–?C231/5, p. 534. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 10 July 1660–d.;C181/7, pp. 18, 576. Yorks. and York 9 Dec. 1663;C181/7, p. 220. loyal and indigent officers, Yorks. 1662;SR. corporations, 1662;HMC 8th Rep. i. 275. subsidy, N. Riding 1663.SR.

Military: col. of ft. (roy.) by Jan. 1643-c.July 1644;Add. 18777, f. 137v; HMC Portland, i. 90; P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers (New York, 1981), 362. capt. of horse, N. Riding 2 June 1643–4.Cumb. RO (Kendal), Strickland ms vol. 1608–1700, N55 Car. I; HMC 5th Rep. 331. Gov. Stamford Bridge, E. Riding c.July 1643-c. Apr. 1644.Slingsby Diary ed. D Parsons, 94–5; Newman, Royalist Officers, 362; J. Binns, Yorks. in the Civil Wars, 84.

Parlimentarian
STRICKLAND, Robert (1600-1671), of Sizergh Castle, Westmld. and Brafferton, Yorks.
: of Sizergh Castle, Westmld. and Yorks., Thornton Bridge.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, attrib. J. Heskith (‘J.H.’), c.1660-70.NT, Sizergh Castle.

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Commons 1640-1660
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STRYCKLAND, Robert (1600-71), of Sizergh Castle, Westmld. and Thornton Bridge, Brafferton, Yorks.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1612, the court of wards estimated that the Stricklands’ estates in Westmld. and Yorkshire were worth £538 p.a.WARD 9/215, ff. 14-15. By 1642, Stryckland’s estates in Westmld. and Yorks. were worth £673 p.a.Phillips, ‘Gentry in Cumb. and Westmld.’, 126. In 1692, his heir, Sir Thomas Strickland†, reckoned that he had inherited an estate worth £1,000 p.a. but encumbered with debts, interest payments and annuities amounting to £27,000.Hornyold, Strickland of Sizergh, 136.
Oxford 1644
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