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Family and Education
bap. 18 May 1600, 2nd s. of Walter Strickland (d. 31 Jan. 1636) of Boynton, Yorks. and Frances (bur. 29 Apr. 1636), da. of Peter Wentworth† of Lillingstone Lovell, Oxon.; bro. of Sir William Strickland*.Boynton par. reg.; C142/553/45; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 123-4. educ. G. Inn 10 Aug. 1618;G. Inn Admiss. 152. Queens’, Camb. Easter 1619.Al. Cant. m. ?c.Nov. 1646, Anne (d. 1688), da. and h. of Sir Charles Morgan (d. c.Mar. 1643) of Pencarn, Mon. and wid. of Sir Lewis Morgan† (d. 3 July 1635) of Rhiwperra Castle, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Glam. s.p.NLW, Tredegar mss 31/33, 91/88; Sheffield Univ. Lib. Hartlib Pprs. 25/7/1A; Clark, Limbus Patrum, 319, 327; ‘Sir Charles Morgan’, Oxford DNB. bur. 29 Oct. 1671 29 Oct. 1671.Flamborough bishop’s transcript.
Offices Held

Diplomatic: envoy (parlian.), Utd. Provinces Aug. 1642-Aug. 1650;CJ ii. 729b; vi. 452a. amb. extraordinary, 23 Jan.-June 1651.CJ vi. 527b, 595b.

Local: commr. assessment, Yorks. (E. Riding), 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; N. Riding 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657; Glam. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Westmld. 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Glos. and S. E. Wales militia, 12 May 1648; militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659;A. and O. E., N. Riding 14 Mar. 1655;SP25/76A, f. 16. Glam. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Glam. by 10 Oct. 1649-Mar. 1660;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 301–3. E. Riding by Feb. 1650 – Mar. 1660; N. Riding 6 Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 270. W. Riding c.Apr. 1655-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 308. Beverley 16 Jan. 1657-c.Mar. 1660;C181/6, p. 195. Mdx., Westminster 3 Oct. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 376. Commr. sewers, E. Riding. by June 1654–22 Sept. 1660;C181/6, pp. 46, 403. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. Custos rot. Beverley 24 Feb. 1657-c.Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 358. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. oyer and terminer, London 26 Nov. 1657 – 19 May 1659; gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 26 Nov. 1657–19 May 1659.C181/6, pp. 266, 352.

Central: member, cttee. for foreign affairs, 10 Nov. 1647.CJ v. 352a; LJ ix. 517b. Commr. to accompany ld. adm. 18 July 1648.CJ v. 639a. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 14 Aug. 1650; cttee. for excise, 14 Aug. 1650;CJ vi. 455a. cttee. regulating universities, 19 Sept. 1650;CJ vi. 469b. cttee. for the army, 17 Oct. 1650, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652.CJ vi. 484b; A. and O. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1651, 25 Nov. 1652, 29 Apr., 9 July, 1 Nov., 16 Dec. 1653.A. and O.; CJ vii. 220b, 221a, 283a, 344a; Clarke Pprs. iii. 4; TSP i. 395, 642; Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate, 106, 379. Commr. treaty with Utd. Provinces, 28 June 1653, 14 Mar. 1654.CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 445; Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 213. Member, cttee. for Virg. and cttee. for Barbados, 29 Dec. 1653.CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 412. Commr. for the law, 20 June 1654;CSP Dom. 1654, p. 215. treaty with Portugal, 10 July 1654, Oct. 1657;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 924, 925; iv. 646. treaty with Denmark, 2 Sept. 1654.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 429. Member, cttee. for statutes, Durham Univ. 10 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 218. Commr. treaty with Sweden, 15 July 1656.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 208. Member, cttee. of safety, 26 Oct. 1659.A True Narrative of the Procs. in Parl. (2 Dec. 1659), 41 (E.1010.24).

Court: capt. of household guard to protector by Sept. 1654–?Apr. 1659.R. Sherwood, Ct. of Oliver Cromwell (1977), 78, 169.

Parlimentarian
STRICKLAND, Walter (1600-71), of Rhiwperra, Glam., and Flamborough, Yorks.
: of Rhiwperra, Glam. and Yorks., Flamborough.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Nason, 1651.NPG, on loan to Sewerby Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Bridlington, Yorks.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

STRICKLAND, Walter (1600-71), of Rhiwperra, Glam., and Flamborough, Yorks.

Will
admon. 12 Dec. 1671.Borthwick, Dickering Deanery Act Bk., f. 19.
Estates
in 1650, purchased manor of Flamborough, Yorks., for £4,800.CJ vii. 198b; CCC 2890. In 1651, purchased, for £236, a fee farm rent in Yorks. worth £18 p.a.SP28/288, f. 31. By Dec. 1651, owned a ‘large house’ in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.Lodewijck Huygens: The English Jnl. 1651-2 ed. A. G. H. Bachrach, R. G. Collmer (Leiden, 1982), 41. By 1666, owned lands in Mon. and owned and leased several burgage tenements in Cardiff.Cardiff Recs. ii. 73, 79, errata and addenda, p. ii.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
lodgings in Whitehall (by June 1653).CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 397.
Religion
presented Charles Hotham to rectory of Nunburnholme, Yorks., 1652.Add. 36792, f. 49.
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