Sir Charles Le Grosse was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 at various times between 1628 and 1653.

Le Grosse was of Crostwick

Crostwick

Crostwick is a village and civil parish in the district of Broadland, Norfolk, England....

 near Norwich and was knighted on 6 December 1616. In 1628, Le Gross was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Orford

Orford (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

Le Grosse acquired by marriage a moiety of the manor of Eccles, which allowed him to hold court there. In 1637 he and Dr. Thomas Lushington were instrumental in persuading the physician and philosopher Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....

, to re-locatte to Norwich. In 1658 Browne dedicated his Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part of a two-part work that concludes with The Garden of Cyrus....

to Le Grosse's eldest son, Thomas .

In April 1640, Le Grosse was re-elected MP for Orford in the Short Parliament

Short Parliament

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. He was re-elected MP for Orford for the Long Parliament

Long Parliament

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 in November 1640 and retained his seat until 1653.

Le Grosse died before 1660.

Le Grosse married Murrial Knevet, daughter of Sir Thomas Knevet and his wife Elizabeth and had a son Charles. The poet Ralph Knevet

Ralph Knevet

Ralph Knevet was an English clergyman and poet.Knevet was a member of the Knevet family of Norfolk. He was admitted at Peterhouse, Cambridge on 13 September 1617 aged 16 and was awarded LLB in 1624...

dedicated the following poem to him.

The King of Pyrrhus shewd the Muses nine

And Phoebus portraited by sculpture fine:

But thou faire Knight-hoods fairer ornament

Conspicuously dost to our eyes present

Phoebus, the Muses nine, the Graces three,

Mercurie, and Mars, yea more Gods then bee

In Homers Iliads; or at least much greater:

For thy mind's a Pantheon, or a Theater,

Wherein all vertues, and all graces stand,

In decent order link'd, with hand in hand.

The[e] 'mongst the chiefest of the Arts few friends

I list: and so adore thy noble ends,

That if my Quill to vertue can life give,

Thy honourd fame shall Nestors age outlive.