About Sir Richard Head, 1st Baronet
Lived 1600 – 1689. Sir Richard Head, 1st Baronet was a politician.
Sir Richard Head, 1st Baronet (ca. 1609 – 18 September 1689) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1667 to 1679.
Head was the son of Richard Head, of Rochester, and his wife Anne Hartridge, daughter of William Hartridge, of Cranbrook.
In 1667 Head was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester in the Cavalier Parliament and held the seat until 1679. He was created a baronet, of The Hermitage in the County of Kent on 19 June 1676. In 1689 Head entertained King James II and his small court as the King was about to leave the country. The king was so pleased and surprised by this hospitality that he presented Head with an emerald ring. and a daughter. He married secondly, Elizabeth Willy, of Wrotham, Kent and had two sons, and three daughters.
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Sir Richard Head, 1st Baronet died on 18 September 1689.
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Sir Richard Head, 1st Baronet was a politician.
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