Richard Moryson

{{Short description|English politician}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} [[File:Letitia Moryson.jpg|thumb|Richard Moryson married Elizabeth Harrington, with whom he had several children including Lettice (pictured).]] 150px|thumb|Coat of Arms of Richard Moryson

'''Sir Richard Moryson''' (died 1625) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.

Moryson was the son of Thomas Moryson and his wife Elizabeth Moigne, daughter of Thomas Moigne of North Willingham, Lincolnshire. His father was a Lincolnshire gentleman who had been member of parliament for Grimsby. Moryson became a soldier and served in the Netherlands. He was knighted on 5 August 1599 in Ireland by the Earl of Essex.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/knightsofengland02shawuoft#page/n105/mode/2up Knights of England]</ref> Subsequently, he became Vice-President of Munster, and sat in the Irish House of Commons in the Irish Parliament of 1613–15 as member for Bandonbridge. After a "long and honourable stay" in Ireland, he returned to England in 1615 and settled at Tooley Park, Leicestershire. He was appointed Lieutenant General of the Ordnance <ref name=Shakes>[https://books.google.com/books?id=whdA4PvHEBcC&dq=%22Richard+Moryson%22+Tooley&pg=PR39 Shakespeare's Europe]</ref> and in 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Leicester.

Moryson wrote his will in 1624, adding a codicil on 29 August 1625, and was dead by the following 3 October.<ref>"[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/moryson-sir-richard-1571-1625 MORYSON, Sir Richard (c.1571-1625), of Tooley Park, Leics. and the Tower, London]", in Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, eds., ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629'', 2010</ref>

Moryson married Elizabeth Harrington, daughter of Sir Henry Harrington. His son Francis became Governor of Virginia, and two other sons Richard and Robert also emigrated to Virginia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=f8kWVOafFtQC&dq=%22Richard+Moryson%22+Tooley&pg=PA321 Lothrop Withington ''Virginia gleanings in England: abstracts of 17th and 18th-century English ...'']</ref> His daughter Lettice, or Letitia, married Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland. His brother Fynes Moryson was a noted travel writer.

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