George Vincent (MP)

George Vincent or Vyncent (c.1493 – 3 January 1566) was a member of the English landed gentry from Peckleton in Leicestershire, who served one term as a "knight of the shire" (i.e., MP) for Leicestershire in 1558.

Vincent was born by 1493, the first son of Richard Vincent of Messingham, Lincolnshire by Anne (Grimsby), who was the daughter and heiress not only of her father (William Grimsby of Lincoln) after her brother’s death, but also coheir through her mother to the Motons of Peckleton (an important Leicestershire family). Vincent was educated in the Inner Temple being admitted in 1519.

By 1517, he had married Jane Story, daughter of William Story of Sleaford, by whom he had seven sons and two daughters; by 1542, he married one Anne (Radcliffe) Lache, a widow of Daventry in Northants; and he finally married Amy Colles of Preston Capes, by whom he had two more sons and one daughter. He succeeded his father some time before 1515.

Vincent served as a local magnate in various offices(he was a justice of the peace from 1538 to his death). He was a political ally and beneficiary of Richard Sacheverell (whose niece Jane Story was Vincent's first wife) and thus allied with the Hastings family against the Greys of Ruthin. He led a Leicestershire contingent in the vanguard against France in England's French campaign of 1544.

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