Edward Radclyffe, 6th Earl of Sussex

Edward Radclyffe, 6th Earl of Sussex (c. 1559 – August 1643) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1586 and 1611 and later succeeded to a peerage.

Radclyffe was the son of Sir Humphrey Radclyffe and his wife Isabel Harvey and grandson of the 1st Earl and Elizabeth Stafford. In 1586 he was elected Member of Parliament for Petersfield. He was elected MP for Bedfordshire in 1588 and for Portsmouth in 1593. He was elected MP for Bedfordshire again in 1597, 1601 and 1604.^[1] He was appointed Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1598.^[1]

Radclyffe was knighted around 1594 and inherited the earldom from his cousin Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex in 1629.

Radclyffe had married three times: first, Elizabeth Petre, the daughter of Sir William Petre of Ingatestone, Essex and widow of John Gostwick of Willington; secondly (1594) Jane, daughter of Francis Hynde of Madingley, Cambridgeshire and widow of John Catesby of Newnham in Goldington; and thirdly (1634) Eleanor, the daughter of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley, Yorkshire and the widow of Sir Henry Lee, Bt., of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire. Eleanor outlived him by many years and made two further marriages. He died impoverished, intestate and childless. The earldom became extinct.^[1]

References

1 2 3 History of Parliament Online - Edward Radcliffe

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Henry Weston Edmund Marvyn	Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1586–1587 With: Edmund Marvyn	Succeeded by Sir Benjamin Tichborne Edmund Marvyn
Preceded by Thomas Snagge George Rotheram	Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire 1588–1589 With: Oliver St John	Succeeded by George Rotheram Oliver St John
Preceded by Thomas Harris Thomas Thorney	Member of Parliament for Portsmouth 1593–1594 With: Thomas Thorney	Succeeded by William Greene Thomas Thorney
Preceded by George Rotheram Oliver St John	Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire 1597–1611 With: Nicholas Luke 1597–1598 Oliver St John 1601–1611	Succeeded by Sir Henry Grey Sir Oliver Luke
Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Cheyney	High Sheriff of Bedfordshire 1598–1599	Succeeded by William Butler
Peerage of England
Preceded by Robert Radclyffe	Earl of Sussex 1629–1643	Extinct

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