Sir Cotton Gargrave
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Sir Cotton Gargrave (1540 - 1588) was a High Sheriff of Yorkshire. He was the son of Sir Thomas Gargrave, also High Sheriff of Yorkshire.[1] He was married first to Bridget Fairfax, daughter of Sir William Fairfax of Steeton, Yorkshire, and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and secondly to Anne Waterton, daughter of Sir Thomas Waterton of Walton and Sandal, Yorkshire.[2] Gargrave resided at Nostell Priory and at Kinsley, Yorkshire.[3] In the northern rebellion of 1569, Sir Cotton Gargrave commanded a force of 200 men from Yorkshire's West Riding. Later he was forced to mortgage many of the extensive properties left him by his wealthy father, and his wife became embroiled in lawsuits after his death. Sir Cotton Gargrave's daughter Elizabeth married William Fenwick, Esq. of Stanton, Northumberland. Over the years, the Gargrave family earned what one observer called a reputation in romantic entanglements "remarkable for crime and misfortune."[4] Thanks to ongoing lawsuits and ill-considered liaisons, "the whole family sunk into obscurity."[5]
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- ^ The Pedigree of the Family of Gargrave, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Joseph Jackson Howard, 1868
- ^ The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, James Alexander Manning, 1851
- ^ Walks in Yorkshire: Wakefield and Its Neighbourhood, William Stott Banks, 1871
- ^ The Publications of the Surtees Society, Surtees Society, 1860
- ^ Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners, Edmund Lodge, 1838
