Constituency Dates
West Looe [1597]
Family and Education
bap. 25 Mar. 1570, 1st s. of Sampson Lennard of Chevening by Margaret, s.j. Baroness Dacre. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1586; L. Inn 1588. m. 1589 (with £2,200), Chrysogona (d.1616), da. of (Sir) Richard Baker of Sissinghurst, Kent, 3s. 4da. suc. mother as 12th Lord Dacre 1612, fa. to Dacre lands in Kent and Suss. Sept. 1615. Kntd. 1596.
Address
Main residences: Chevening, Kent; Hurstmonceaux Castle, Suss.
biography text

Lennard’s father unsuccessfully claimed the barony of Dacre, which Lennard himself eventually inherited from his mother. He made a good marriage while still at Lincoln’s Inn, fought at Cadiz with the 2nd Earl of Essex and received a knighthood. He probably obtained his seat at West Looe through his father’s friend, Sir Robert Cecil. Like his father, he lived extravagantly and was forced to sell estates.

He died intestate 8 Aug. 1616 of an ‘ague’ and was buried at Chevening, to be succeeded by his first son, Richard.1CP, iv. 11-12; T. L. Barrett, Hist. Lennard and Barrett Fams. 218-50; CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 391.

Author
R.C.G.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Notes
  • 1. CP, iv. 11-12; T. L. Barrett, Hist. Lennard and Barrett Fams. 218-50; CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 391.