Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet

Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet (2 August 1591 – 6 September 1640) PC, of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, was twice elected as a Member of Parliament for Orford in Suffolk, in 1621 and 1628.

He had a considerable reputation as a surgeon, but is said to have made many enemies due to his "immoderate temper".

[1][2] He was knighted at the Palace of Whitehall on 15 November 1612 and succeeded to the baronetcy and estate of Helmingham on the death of his father in 1612.

In 1628 he was elected an MP for Orford again and sat until 1629 when King Charles embarked on his period of Personal Rule without parliament for eleven years.

[2] On 16 December 1612 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster[3] he married Elizabeth Stanhope, a daughter of John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope of Harrington (by his second wife Margaret McWilliams), by whom he had a son and six daughters, including: Tollemache died suddenly at Tilbury in Essex on 6 September 1640, in his 49th year, and was buried in St Mary's Church, Helmingham, where survives his mural monument with semi-recumbent effigy, commenced by his father and completed by himself.

Mural monument to Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet, St Mary's Church, Helmingham
Arms of Stanhope: Quarterly ermine and gules , as impaled by Tollemache on his monument in St Mary's Church, Helmingham