Richard Shuttleworth (MP for Preston)

Richard Shuttleworth (1587–1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1659.

In 1607 he inherited the family estates of Gawthorpe from his uncle, the Rev Lawrence Shuttleworth.

He was re-elected in November 1640 for the Long Parliament and sat until 1648 when he was possibly secluded or chose not to sit after Pride's Purge.

[2] During the interregnum, Shuttleworth was a leading magistrate for Blackburn hundred with John Starkie of Huntroyde and was frequently recorded as officiating at marriages.

[1] He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War, serving as a colonel in the parliamentary army.