Robert Cunliffe (MP)
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Robert Cunliffe (died 4 December 1653) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653.
Cunliffe was of Sparth in Clayton in the Moors, Lancashire and was an active parliamentarian. He was one of commissioners for sequestration for Lancashire in 1643 .[1] In 1653, he was nominated as Member of Parliament for Lancashire in the Barebones Parliament.[2] He died eight days before the dissolution of the parliament in 1653.
His only daughter married John Grimshaw son of John Grimshaw of Glayton Hall.[1]
References
- ^ a b William Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c. (1889)
- ^ 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.
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