Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
- Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport (7 May 1587 – 8 February 1651) was an English noble.
The son of Sir Francis Newport, Sheriff of Shropshire and Beatrix Lacon, he was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Newport was Member of Parliament (MP) for
Shropshire in 1614, and from 1624 to 1629, and for Shrewsbury from 1620 to 1622.
On 14 October 1642, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Newport, of High Ercall in the County of Shropshire, having been knighted in Theobalds, Hertfordshire in 1615. After the execution of Charles I, he fled to France and died aged 63 in Moulins Lord Newport was married to Rachel Leveson, daughter of Sir John Leveson. Their son Francis Newport succeeded his father's title.
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