Richard Winwood (MP)

Richard Winwood (15 April 1609 – 28 June 1688) of Quainton, Buckinghamshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1641 and 1685.

[1] His father was Secretary of State in the time of King James I and was granted Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire.

[2] He also inherited the manors of Bawdeswell and Sparham in Norfolk, which he subsequently sold to Alexander Pitfield of London.

In April 1660 he stood for Windsor for the Convention Parliament but his election was declared void.

He was a shareholder in the New River Company, and possessed estates in Suffolk as well as Buckinghamshire and Norfolk.