page_title: Thomas Strickland (Cavalier)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Strickland (Cavalier) / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Thomas John Francis Strickland, known as Abbé Strickland (1679?–1740), English Roman Catholic bishop of Namur and doctor of the Sorbonne.
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Strickland PC was an English politician and soldier. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War, being knighted for his gallantry at the Battle of Edgehill.
  After the Restoration, he was a member of Parliament for Westmorland, as well as attending the courts of Charles II and later James II. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, he accompanied James II when the latter left for France. He died in Rouen six years later.
context_section_description: Sir Thomas Strickland married firstly in 1646, Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas  Moseley of Ulleskelf, in the county of Yorkshire, and widow of Sir Christopher Dawnay, first of the Dawnay baronets, by whom he had two surviving daughters: 
  Alice, married Sir Walter Kirkham Blount, 3rd of the Blount Baronets, of Sodington Hall and Mauly, in the county of Worcestershire, but died without issue
  Anne, married John Middleton of Stockeld Park, but died without issue.
  Sir Thomas married secondly, Winifred (1645–1725), daughter and co-heiress of Sir Christopher Trentham  of Rocester Abbey, in the county of Staffordshire, and had issue:
  Walter (1675–1715), who inherited Sizergh
  Robert (1679–1713) died unmarried
  Roger (1680–1704), who was page to the Prince of Conti when he went from France to be elected King of Poland. Roger Strickland died unmarried at 24 years old.
  Thomas (1682–1740) who became  Bishop of Namur. He was sent as sheriff  to Victoria District by the Emperor Charles VI in 1734, and was an unofficial agent of the English government to the Vatican. He died at Namur in 1740 and was buried in his own cathedral.
caption: Sir Thomas's son Thomas John Francis, Bishop of Namur
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