Richard Lewknor (1541–1616)

14 March 1541[1] – 6 April 1616) of Downeley, West Dean, Sussex, was an English politician.

He was elected Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chichester in 1572, 1584, 1586, 1589, 1593 and 1597.

From his first marriage he had two sons, Thomas Lewknor who died without issue and Richard Lewknor of West Dean in Sussex who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Christopher Brome of Holton, Oxfordshire.

[4][5][6] After his first wife's death he married Margaret, the daughter of Thomas Atkins of London and widow of both Thomas Hughes, the royal physician and Stephen Hadnall of Lancelevy, Hampshire.

[3] In 1589, he bought the manor of West Dean, which was left to his grandson Richard Lewknor at his death in 1616.