Sir Richard Gargrave (1573–1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1609.
[1] He succeeded to the family estates worth £3,500 p.a when his elder half-brother[2] Thomas Gargrave was executed for the murder of a servant boy.
"He who could once ride on his own land from Wakefield to Doncaster, was reduced at last to travel to London with the packhorses, and was found dead in an old hostelry, with his head upon a pack-saddle," wrote Richard Vickerman Taylor in his Yorkshire Anecdotes.
[4] Echoed the genealogical publisher John Burke: "The memory of his extravagance and his vices yet lingers about Kingsley.
[2] Mary married Sir Robert Carr of Sleaford.