Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex

Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex (1625 – 26 October 1674) was an English peer, styled Hon.

[1] Cranfield succeeded his brother James as Earl of Middlesex in 1651.

In May 1660, the earl was one of the six peers deputed by the Convention Parliament to invite the return of Charles II of England.

[1] He died the following year without issue; his titles became extinct, and his estates passed to his nephew Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset.

This biography of an earl or countess in the Peerage of England is a stub.

Portrait titled Lionel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex at top left
Cranfield's wife, the Dowager Countess of Bath, who became Countess of Middlesex
Autograph letter from Cranfield (at Copt Hall ) to his estranged wife, circa 1670.