Sir Robert Crane
Baronet of Chilton
Born1585
Chilton, Suffolk, Kingdom of England
Died17 February 1642
London, Kingdom of England
SpouseDorothea Hobart (m. 1616 – 1624) Susan Alington (m. 1624 – d. 1642)
IssueMary Hare

Anne Armine

Susan Walpole

Katherine Bacon
FatherHenry Crane Esq., of Chilton
MotherKatherine Jerningham


Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet (1586 – February 1643) of Chilton, Suffolk and of Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1643.[1]

Crane was the son of Henry Crane of Chilton and educated in the law at the Inner Temple and Lincoln's Inn.[2]

In 1614 Crane was elected Member of Parliament for Sudbury and held the seat until 1620. He was elected MP for Suffolk in 1621 and re-elected MP for Sudbury in 1624 and 1625.[3] He was created a Baronet of Chilton, in Suffolk on 21 April 1626.[2] Crane was re-elected MP for Suffolk in 1626 and re-elected MP for Sudbury in 1628. He sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[3] In 1632–33 Crane was High Sheriff of Suffolk.[2]

In April 1640, Crane was elected MP for Sudbury in the Short Parliament and in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He held the seat until his death in February 1643.[3]

The baronetcy became extinct on Crane's death as he had no sons. He had married firstly Dorothy Hobart, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, by whom he had no issue. He married secondly, Susan Alington, ?granddaughter of Sir Giles Alington of Horsebeath. They had four daughters - Mary who married Sir Ralph Hare, 1st Baronet, Anne who married firstly Sir William Armine, 2nd Baronet, and secondly John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse, Susan who married Sir Edward Walpole, and Katherine who married Edmund Bacon, nephew of Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet.

After Crane's death, Lady Crane married secondly, Isaac Appleton, esq. of Waldingfeld.

References

  1. ↑ "CRANE, Sir Robert (1586-1643), of Chilton, nr. Sudbury, Suff. and Buckenham Tofts, Norf". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
  3. 1 2 3 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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