Person:William Strickland (20)

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Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet (c. 1596 – 12 July 1673) was an English Member of Parliament who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

Sir William Strickland was the eldest son of Walter Strickland of Boynton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, inheriting his estates, including Boynton Hall, on his death in 1636. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and proceeded to Gray's Inn though he seems not to have qualified as a barrister.

He was knighted in 1630, and in 1640 was elected to Parliament as member for Hedon. Initially he seems to have been a friend and supporter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, to whom he was distantly related (Strickland's mother was a Wentworth), although he is not one of the MPs who was listed as voting against Strafford's attainder. Strickland was a strict Puritan, and after Strafford's death he moved firmly towards the Parliamentary cause, although the king created him a baronet on 29 July 1641, perhaps hoping to sway him towards support for the Crown.

Strickland sat for Hedon throughout the Long Parliament, taking a hard line in support of the Commonwealth and later of Cromwell. (An opposition pamphleteer described him as "for settling the Protector anew in all those things for which the king was cut off". He also spoke frequently in favour of the punishment of James Naylor. After the expulsion of the Rump, he did not appear in the Barebone's Parliament, but was elected for the Protectorate Parliaments of as one of the four members for the East Riding in 1654 and 1656.^[1] He was subsequently summoned to Cromwell's House of Peers as Lord Strickland. (His younger brother, Walter Strickland, was also a member, and held a number of other senior offices during the Commonwealth.) Strickland sat in the restored Long Parliament in 1659, but apparently took no part in its proceedings and (unlike his brother) seems to have retired entirely from public affairs after the Restoration, though he was not molested by the authorities.

From 1642 to 1646, Strickland was Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

He was married twice – on 18 June 1622 to Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby; and, after his first wife's death in 1629 to Frances Finch, daughter of Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea. He had four daughters by his first marriage, and one son, Thomas, by his second, who succeeded him in the baronetcy.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2.   Sir William Strickland, 1st Bt., in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
3.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.

   Sir John Cochrane was the son of William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald and Eupheme Scott. He married Margaret Strickland, daughter of Sir William Strickland, 1st Bt. and Margaret Cholmley, in March 1656. He died after 23 June 1707. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Ayrshire [Scotland] in 1669. In 1683 he was suspected of complicity in the Rye House Plot, and fled to Holland. In 1685 he returned to Scotland and took part in Argyll's uprising. Sir John and his son took refuge in the house of his uncle, Gavin Cochrane of Craigmuir, whose wife Margaret Cleland was the sister of Captain Cleland, killed at Muirdykes, and out of revenge she betrayed them to the royalists, and they were conveyed to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh. He was imprisoned and his lands confiscated. In 1690 he was restored to his estates. He lived at Ochiltree, Scotland.
   *Descendants of JOHN, of Dundonald, of Paisley, Scotland, who went over to Ulster in the north of Ireland circa 1680 - 1684, or before, with three of his sons: HUGH, JOHN, and JAMES, believing they would be free to follow their faith in the Presbyterian church. But this was not to be. They were not allowed to worship openly and their marriages were not honored unless done in the State Church. They were taxed heavily and had no rights in government. So they fled Ireland to save their wealth, if not their lives, and came to America, very likely before 1720. Before 1724 COCHRANS first settled on the Susquehanna river, then the frontier. Scotch Irish fighters served as a shield to Penn's Quakers.