Sir Richard Ingoldsby, KB, of Lethenborough, Buckinghamshire, was the son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby (d. 1635) of Lethenborough, the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1606,[1] and of his first wife Elizabeth Palmer.
She was the daughter of William Palmer, of Waddesdon, Buckingamshire[2] and Joyce Pigott, (b.
[3] He was knighted on 22 October 1617 by King James I, during a royal visit to his father-in-law's house at Hinchingbrooke.
Elizabeth was previously married to Henry Neale, Sr., by whom she had three sons.
[5] Ingoldsby and his wife had twelve surviving children, and one (Dorothy) who died in infancy: