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bap. 1 July 1584, 1st s. of Sir William Strode† and 1st w. Mary, da. of Thomas Southcote† of Shillingford St George and Bovey Tracey, Devon; bro. of William Strode I*.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 719. educ. St John’s, Camb. 1598.Al. Cant. m. (1) settlement c. Jan. 1597,C142/764/3. Katherine (d. c.1608), da. and h. of Sir Robert Strode of Parnham, Dorset, 3da. (1 d.v.p.);Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 131-2, 243. (2) settlement 31 Oct. 1612,Plymouth RO, 72/MTD3/3, now missing. Elizabeth (d. 27 June 1652), da. of Thomas Erle of Charborough, Dorset, 1s. 5da.; (3) Anne, da. of Sir John Drake† of Ashe, Devon, 1s. 1da.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 719; Som. and Dorset Notes and Queries, viii. 249. Kntd. 14 Mar. 1604;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 130. suc . fa. 1637. bur. 9 Oct. 1669 9 Oct. 1669.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 719.
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Civic: freeman, Lyme Regis 1607.Dorset RO, B7/B6/11, f. 9. ?Recorder, Plympton by 1639–40.CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 288; J.B. Rowe, Hist. Plympton Erle, 158.

Local: j.p. Dorset 1619-c.1627.C231/4, f. 79v; E163/18/12, f. 19v; HMC Cowper, i. 305. Commr. martial law, 1626; billeting, 1626;APC 1626, pp. 221, 223–4. hard soap, western cos. 1638.C181/5, f. 92. ?Dep. lt. Devon 1642–3.SP24/78, order of Devon standing cttee. 23 Aug. 1649; petition of Strode, Chudleigh and Pole, 21 Sept. 1652. Commr. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Devon, 1 July 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649;A. and O. Dorset 1664.SR.

Colonial: member, cttee. Dorchester New England Co. Mar. 1624.Whiteway Diary, 61; F. Rose-Troup, John White, The Patriarch of Dorchester (1930), 63.

Military: scoutmaster (parlian.), army of Henry Grey*, 1st earl of Stamford, 1643.SP24/78, petition of Sir Richard Strode; CCAM 38; PA, Main Papers, 1 July 1645.

Parlimentarian
STRODE, Sir Richard (1584-1669), of Lower Chalmington, Cattistock, Dorset and Newnham, Plympton St. Mary, Devon
: of Lower Chalmington, Cattistock, Dorset and Plympton St Mary, Devon., Newnham.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

STRODE, Sir Richard (1584-1669), of Lower Chalmington, Cattistock, Dorset and Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon.

Will
20 July 1669, pr. 27 July 1670.PROB11/333, f. 222v.
Estates
Oxford 1644
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