Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex

Lionel Cranfield
Lord High Treasurer
In office
1621 – 25 April 1624
Preceded byHenry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester
Succeeded byJames Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough
Personal details
Born1575
London, England
Died(1645-08-06)6 August 1645
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Sheppard
Anne Brett
ChildrenMartha Cranfield, Countess of Monmouth
Elizabeth Cranfield, Lady Sheffield Countess of Mulgrave
Mary Cranfield
Gertrude Howard
James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex
Frances Cranfield, Countess of Dorset
Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex
Edward Cranfield
Susanna Cranfield
Occupationmercer

Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex (1575 – 6 August 1645) was an English merchant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranfield.[1][2]

  1. ^ M. Prestwich, Cranfield: Politics and Profits Under the Early Stuarts. The Career of Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1966).
  2. ^ A. Davidson & S. Healy, Cranfield, Sir Lionel (1575–1645), of Wood Street, London; later of Chelsea, Mdx.; Copt Hall, Essex and Milcote, Warws., in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, (Cambridge University Press 2010), History of Parliament online.

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