Cotton Gargrave

Sir Cotton Gargrave (1540–1588) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1572.

[2] In the northern rebellion of 1569, Gargrave commanded a force of 200 men from the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[7] Over the years, the Gargrave family earned what one observer called a reputation for romantic entanglements "remarkable for crime and misfortune."

[9] His son Richard by his second wife inherited an enormous patrimony from the Gargrave estates in Yorkshire, but dissipated it by drinking, gambling and extravagance and was eventually reduced to riding with the pack horses and died with his head on a pack saddle in an old inn.

[10] Among his daughters; Elizabeth, married William Fenwick of Stanton, Northumberland,[11] Anne married Peter Venables, MP and secondly the equerry Sir Edward Bushell, and Mary was a Maid of Honour to Anne of Denmark.