LBT ID: ChStand1863 | B/BAP: 1790-03-15 DIED: 1863-06-10 |
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (July 1863) 113; Marquis of Ruvigny, Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Clarence Volume (1994) 314 | |
Of Standish, Lancashire; the son of Thomas Strickland (d. 1813); a Catholic, he was a
Whig MP for Wigan (1837-41, 1842-47). In 1819 Maria Edgeworth described him as “an
exquisite, or tiptop dandy.” | |