CLINTON, Sir Henry (d.1616), of Tattershall, Lincs.

Family and Education

1st s. of Edward, 1st Earl of Lincoln, by his 2nd w. Ursula, da. of William Stourton, 7th Baron Stourton; bro. of Thomas Clinton alias Fiennes . m. (1) Catherine, da. of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, 2s. inc. Thomas, Lord Clinton; (2) Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Morison of Cassiobury, Herts., wid. of William Norris, 2s. 1da. KB Sept. 1553. styled. Lord Clinton 1573-85; suc. fa. as 2nd Earl of Lincoln 1585.C142/209/34(1); 397/66; CP, xii. (1), 304; HMC Hastings, i. 316; Collins, Peerage, ed. Brydges, ii. 207; CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 54.

Offices Held

J.p.q. Lincs. (all three divisions), v.-adm. Lincs. by 1574; commr. at trials of Mary Stuart 1586, William Davison 1587, Philip, Earl of Arundel 1589; ambassador to Landgrave of Hesse 1596; one of peers to try Robert, Earl of Essex 1601.CSP Dom. Add. 1566–79, p. 452; 1580–1625, p. 275; CSP Scot. 1586–8, pp. 44, 308, 346, 353; HMC Hatfield, v. 250; vi. 254, 289, 425; APC, xxxi. 151, 170. His name is omitted from several lists of commissions of the peace in and after 1577, but the same applies to other great Lincs, magnates, and probably means no more than that these lists were used for working purposes only.

Parlimentarian

CLINTON, Sir Henry (d.1616), of Tattershall, Lincs.

Main residence: Tattershall, Lincs.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

CLINTON, Sir Henry (-d.1616)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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