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Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet

1613 – 1662

English politician

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Lived 1613 – 1662 (aged 48–49). Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet was an English politician.

Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet (ca. 1613 – 5 January 1662) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1662.

Life Springet was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Springet of Broyle Place and his wife Mary Bellingham, daughter of John Bellingham of Erringham, Shoreham. He was educated at Hawkhurst Grammar School under Mr Godwin and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge on 3 July 1628, aged 15. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1630 and travelled abroad in France in 1635.

In August 1643 he was named to the Sussex committee for the 'speedy Raising and Levying of Money, for the Maintenance of the Army raised by the Parliament, and other great Affairs of the Commonwealth'. In 1646 Springet was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Shoreham as a replacement in the Long Parliament and held the seat until he was excluded in Pride's Purge in 1648. He was also an MP for Sussex in the First Protectorate Parliament from 1654 to 1655. status = extinct extinction_date = 1662 In 1661 he was elected MP for Shoreham again for the Cavalier Parliament.

Springet died in 1662 aged 48. His daughter Barbara married Sir William Thomas, 1st Baronet MP for Seaford and Sussex.

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Born
1613
Birth century
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Nationality
Education
Christ's College
Positions held
Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the First Protectorate Parliament, Member of the April 1660 Parliament, Member of the 1661-79 Parliament
Also known as
Herbert Springet, Sir Herbert Springet

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Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet was born in 1613.

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Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet died on 5 January 1662.

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Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet

· Wikidata: Q7527257

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