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Richard Shuttleworth (MP for Clitheroe)

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Richard Shuttleworth(c.1613 – 1648) was an English politician who sat in theHouse of Commonsbetween 1640 and 1648. He fought in theParliamentarianarmy in theEnglish Civil War.

Shuttleworth was the son of ColonelRichard Shuttleworth(1607–1689) ofGawthorpeand his wife Fleetwood Barton, daughter of Richard Barton of Barton-in-Amoundeness. His father was MP for Preston andHigh Sheriff of Lancashire.[1]

In April 1640, Shuttleworth was electedMember of ParliamentforClitheroein theShort Parliament.He was re-elected in November 1640 for theLong Parliamentand sat until his death in 1648.[2]

Shuttleworth married Jane Kirk of London and had two sons (Sir Richard (1646–1682) and Nicholas) and a daughter (Fleetwood).[1]

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  1. ^abJohn BurkeA genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain Volume 3
  2. ^Willis, Browne(1750).Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660...London. pp.229–239.
Parliament of England
Vacant Member of ParliamentforClitheroe
1640–1648
With:Sir Ralph Assheton 		Succeeded by
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