Sir James Harington, 1st Baronet
Sir James Harington of Ridlington (d. 1614), politician.
Harington was the third son of Sir James Harington of Exton, Rutland and Lucy Sidney of Penshurst.[1]
He married Frances Sapcote (d. 1599) daughter and co-heir of Robert Sapcote of Elton. He lived at Ridlington, and was made a baronet on 29 June 1611.
Harington was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1601, and Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1604.
His second wife was Anne Bernard widow of John Doyley. In a double wedding in 1601 his eldest son married her daughter, heiress of Doyley's estates at Merton, Oxfordshire.
He died on 3 February 1614.[2] A monument on the north wall of the chancel of St Mary Magdalene and St Andrew, Ridlington, commemorates him and his first wife Anne Sapcote and their nine sons and seven daughters.
Family
Harington's children included;[3]
- Edward Harington, who succeded him as baronet of Ridlington, married Margery Doyley in 1601.
- Sapcote Harington, married (1) Jane Samwell daughter of Sir William Samwell of Upton, their son James Harington wrote The Commonwealth of Oceana, (2) Jane Woodward daughter of Sir John Woodward.
- Anne Harington, married (1) Sir Thomas Foljambe of Aldwark (d. 1604) (2) Sir John Molyneux of Teversal
- Bridget Harington (1579-1609), married Sir Anthony Markham of Sedgebrook.
References
- ^ Simon Healy, 'HARINGTON, Sir James (c.1555-1614)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010.
- ^ Simon Healy, 'HARINGTON, Sir James (c.1555-1614)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010.
- ^ John Debrett, The baronetage of England, vol. 1 (London, 1824), p. 30.