About Henry Crofts
Lived 1590 – 1667 (aged 76–77). Henry Crofts was an English politician.
Sir Henry Crofts (June 1590 – March 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660.
Crofts was the eldest son of Sir John Crofts of Little Saxham and West Stow and his wife Mary Shirley, daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex. He was knighted on 3 February 1611. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Eye. In 1626 he was elected MP for Derby He succeeded his father to his estates in about 1628.
Crofts was a strong Anglican and was not active during the English Civil War although he was named as commissioner of array for Suffolk in 1642. In 1646 the sequestrators required him to surrender a portion of the estate due to his daughter, who had married without her father's consent to Sir Frederick Cornwallis, a Royalist. This was returned when the sequestration was lifted in 1648.
A daughter Elizabeth Crofts married Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis in 1643.
His sister Cecilia Crofts married Thomas Killigrew.
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English politician; (1590-1667)
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