Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet

He was born on 2 August 1591, the son and heir of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet (1562–1612) of Helmingham, by his wife Katharine Cromwell, a daughter of Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell.[1]

He was knighted at the Palace of Whitehall on 15 November 1612 and succeeded to the baronetcy and estate of Helmingham on the death of his father in 1612.[2] In 1621 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Orford in Suffolk. He was a Privy Councillor to King James I and Charles I. In 1628 he was elected an MP for Orford again and sat until 1629 when King Charles embarked on his period of Personal Rule without parliament for eleven years.[2]

Arms of Stanhope: Quarterly ermine and gules, as impaled by Tollemache on his monument in St Mary's Church, Helmingham

In about 1620 he married Elizabeth Stanhope, a daughter of John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope of Harrington (by his second wife Margaret McWilliams), by whom he had a son and six daughters, including:

• Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet (1624–1669), son and heir;
• Jane Tollemache, who married Thomas Cholmondeley (b. 1627);[3]
• Elizabeth Tollemache, who married firstly William Alington, 1st Baron Alington, and secondly Sir William Compton, Master of the Ordnance (died 1663);
• Anne Tollemache, who married Sir Robert Broke, 1st Baronet.[2]
• Catherine Tollemache, who married Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Baronet[4]

Tollemache died suddenly at Tilbury in Essex on 6 September 1640, in his 49th year, and was buried in St Mary's Church, Helmingham, where survives his mural monument with semi-recumbent effigy, commenced by his father and completed by himself.[2]

• Cokayne, George E (1900). Complete Baronetage. 1. p. 18.
• Ferris, John P. (2010). "Tollemache (Talmash), Sir Lionel, 2nd Bt. (1591-1640), of Helmingham Hall, Suff.; Brunt Hall, Great Fakenham, Suff. and Charing Cross, Westminster". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
• Hampson, Gillian; Henning, Basil Duke (1983). "Cholmondeley Thomas (1627-1702), of Vale Royal, Cheshire". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690. Retrieved 27 October 2019.

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• TOLLEMACHE (TALMASH), Sir Lionel, 2nd Bt. (1591-1640), of Helmingham Hall, Suff.; Brunt Hall, Great Fakenham, Suff. and Charing Cross, Westminster In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629.