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MIDDLESEX, LIONEL CRANFIELD, 1ST EARL OF (1575-1645)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 413 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MIDDLESEX, LIONEL CRANFIELD, 1ST EARL OF (1575-1645) , was a successful London merchant, who was introduced to King James I. by
Henry
  Howard,
earl
  of
Northampton
 , and entered the royal service in 1605. In 1613 he was knighted and was appointed surveyor-general of customs; in 1616 he became one of the masters of requests, and in 1619 master of the court of wards and liveries and
chief
 
commissioner
  of the navy. He was returned to
parliament
  as member for Hythe in 1614 and for Arundel in 1621. Cranfield, who was also master of the ward-robe, was responsible for many economies in the public service, and his business acumen was very useful to the king. He took part in the attack on Bacon in 1621, and although, contrary to general expectation, he did not succeed Bacon as lord chancellor, he was created Baron Cranfield in July of this year. In 1621 also he became lord high treasurer, and in September 1622 was created
earl
  of
Middlesex
 , losing his positions and influence shortly afterwards because he opposed the projected war with Spain, and had incurred the hostility of Prince Charles and George Villiers, duke of Buckingham. Impeached by the
House
  of Commons for corruption, he was found guilty by the
House
  of Lords in May 1624 and was sentenced to lose all his offices, to pay a heavy fine and to be imprisoned during the king's pleasure. However, he was released from prison in a few days, was pardoned in the following year, and was restored to his seat in the House of Lords in 164o. The earl's second wife was Anne Brett (d. 1670). a
cousin
  of Buckingham's mother, whom he married somewhat reluctantly in 1621 in order to ensure Buckingham's support.
Middlesex
  died on the 6th of August 1645, leaving with other issue a son James (1621-1651), 2nd earl of Middlesex, who was a partisan of the parliamentary party during the Civil War. James was succeeded by his brother, Lionel, and when this earl died in October 1674 his titles became extinct. The first earl's daughter Frances married Richard Sackville, 5th earl of Dorset, and their son Charles was created earl of Middlesex in 1675. Two years later he became earl of Dorset, and the title of earl of Middlesex was borne by the earls and dukes of Dorset until 1843.


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