Richard Lewknor (c. 1589 – 27 May 1635) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629.
Lewknor was the son of Richard Lewknor, of West Dean, Sussex, and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Christopher Brome of Holton, Oxfordshire.
[1] He was the elder brother of Christopher Lewknor, also an MP.
[1][2] He came into possession of the family manor of West Dean on the death of his grandfather Sir Richard Lewknor in 1616.
He married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Bennett, Alderman of London, and had Sir John Lewknor (1623–1669) who married Anne (d. 1704), daughter George Mynne of Abisham in Surrey and the second cousin of Nicholas Mynne.