He was the son of Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre and Sampson Lennard.
[2] He successfully claimed the barony of Dacre on his mother's 1612.
[3] Like his father Lord Dacre lived extravagantly and was forced to sell some of his lands.
He died of an infectious "ague" (fever) in August 1616.
His wife had died a few weeks earlier, possibly from the same illness.