Sir Richard Skeffington (died 2 June 1647) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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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.
[ George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 1'' 1900]
/ref> He matriculated from Magdalene College, Cambridge
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, in autumn 1615.Staffordshire
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as a recruiter to the Long Parliament
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in 1646.[
Skeffington died in 1647 and was buried at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, where there is a monument.][
Skeffington married Anne Newdigate, daughter of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury, Warwickshire.][ His son was John Skeffington, who inherited the Massereene viscountcy in 1665.]
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Year of birth missing
1647 deaths
English landowners
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
English MPs 1625
English MPs 1640–1648