Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, 1st Baronet (14 January 1602 – 8 June 1658) was a Yorkshire landowner, politician and soldier who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1642. He was executed for his adherence to the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.

Slingsby was the second but oldest surviving son of Sir Henry Slingsby, who had been High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1611, and who died in 1634, and his wife Frances Vavasour. His uncles were Sir William Slingsby and Sir Guylford Slingsby. He was elected Member of Parliament for Knaresborough in the Useless Parliament of 1625. He inherited substantial estates at Scriven and Redhouse in the West Riding on the death of his father in 1634. In 1638 he was created a baronet.

During the Bishops' War, Slingsby served in the Royal army in Scotland. and was chosen to represent Knaresborough again in 1640, after a vigorously-contested election. He sat in both the Short Parliament and Long Parliament, and was a vigorous supporter of the Royalist cause. On the outbreak of the First English Civil War, Slingsby offered to raise a regiment for the King, but his offer was declined because of a lack of arms; but he took possession of Knaresborough Castle, forestalling a Parliamentary plan to seize it. In September 1642, he was one of the first wave of Royalist MPs to be deprived of their seats by the Parliamentarian majority, which passed motions declaring them disabled from sitting.

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