Richard Sacheverell

Sir Richard Sacheverell (by 1469 – 14 April 1534), of Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke (Newarke College), Leicester, and Ratcliffe-upon-Soar, Nottinghamshire, was an English politician.

He was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 and at the reception for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in England in 1522.

In 1522, he was in command of a substantial cavalry unit in the north of England.

On his death in 1534, he was buried alongside his wife in the College of the Annunciation of St Mary in the Newarke, Leicester (Newarke College), where they had lived for many years.

He was survived by his wife's two sons, including George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, and a daughter.