Francis Ingoldsby was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

House of Commons of England

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  between 1654 and 1659.

Ingoldsby was the son of Richard Ingoldsby of Lenborough

Lenborough

Lenborough is a hamlet in the parish of Buckingham next to Gawcott, in Buckinghamshire, England. It consists mainly of barn conversions and farm houses and connects onto the back of the Buckingham Industrial Estate....

, Buckinghamshire and his wife Elizabeth Cromwell. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford

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 on 25 November 1631, aged 16. He sold his estate of Lenborough to his steward. In 1654 he was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Buckingham

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 for the First Protectorate Parliament

First Protectorate Parliament

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. He was re-elected MP for Buckingham in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament

Second Protectorate Parliament

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 and again in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament

Third Protectorate Parliament

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. On the Restoration, he was one of those nominated for the projected title of Knight of the Royal Oak.

Ingoldsby died a pensioner of the Charterhouse, London in 1681.

Ingoldsby was the brother of Richard Ingoldsby

Richard Ingoldsby

Colonel Sir Richard Ingoldsby was an English officer in the New Model Army during the English Civil War and a politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1685...

who was one of the few regicides to be pardoned.