Richard Knightley (died 1639)

Richard Knightley (died 1639)

Richard Knightley (died 1639) was an English Member of Parliament (MP).

The grandson of Sir Richard Knightley, he was MP for Northamptonshire in the parliaments of 1621, 1624 and 1625, and also served as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1626. He refused to pay the King's forced loan in 1627, and thereafter acted in the House of Commons with Sir John Eliot and John Hampden in their resistance to the royal policy.

References

* Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)


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