About Richard Skeffington
Lived 1590 – 1647 (aged 56–57). Richard Skeffington was an English politician.
Sir Richard Skeffington (died 2 June 1647) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1647.
Skeffington was born after 1590, the second son of Sir William Skeffington, 1st Baronet of Fisherwick, Staffordshire, and his wife Elizabeth Dering of Surrenden, Kent. He matriculated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in autumn 1615. He was knighted on 20 August 1624. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth. He was elected MP for Staffordshire as a recruiter to the Long Parliament in 1646.
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English politician
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Richard Skeffington was born in 1590.
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Richard Skeffington died on 2 June 1647.
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