Robert Strickland

Sir Robert Strickland of Sizergh (1 January 1600 – April 1671) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in the Parliament of 1624.

[3][4] In 1638, Strickland received a colonel's commission from Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of the county of York, to command 900 militia in the North Riding (the Northallertonshire Trained Band[5]) for Charles I during the Bishops' War.

In 1640, he received the King's commission from Algernon, 10th Earl of Northumberland to raise a regiment, accoutre it, and march it to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

In the English Civil War, he received a third commission to command a troop of cavalry which he is said to have supported largely at his own expense.

[3][4] Strickland married Margaret Alford, eldest of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Sir William Alford of Meaux Abbey and Bilton, Yorkshire and his first wife Elizabeth Rookes, and had issue, besides his eldest son Sir Thomas Strickland, another son Walter Strickland, and two daughters, Dorothy, who married Wiliam Grimstone, and Theresa, who married as his second wife John Stafford-Howard, younger son of William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford.