Sir Robert Strickland

Sir Robert Strickland of Sizergh (1 January 1600 – April 1671) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in the Parliament of 1624. He supported King Charles I during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Biography Strickland was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Strickland of Sizergh Castle, Helsington, Cumbria, and his second wife Margaret Curwen, daughter of Sir Nicholas Curwen and sister of the politician Sir Henry Curwen. He matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge at Easter 1615. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland in the Happy Parliament. In 1638, Strickland received a colonel's commission from Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of the county of York, to command 900 militia in the North Riding for Charles I during the Bishops' War. In 1640, he received the King's commission from Algernon, 10th Earl of Northumberland to raise a regiment, accoutre it, and march it to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In the English Civil War, he received a third commission to command a troop of cavalry which he is said to have supported largely at his own expense. At the battle of Edgehill, he himself commanded the cavalry, and his son Sir Thomas Strickland commanded the regiment of foot soldiers.