ER
was created Baroness of Cramond in her own right, a title which was to descend to her husband
's heirs, not her own: he could not be overtly ennobled because of his judgeship.
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Elizabeth Richardson
Sir Thomas Richardson
's judgements from the bench mingled the astute with the wrong-headed. In 1632 he was fined a large sum for permitting bail unjustifiably to a defendant in a political case, and the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Richardson
Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham
, became (at St Giles in the Fields in London) the second wife of Sir Thomas Richardson
, then Speaker of the House of Commons
and Chief Justice.
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Elizabeth Richardson
Sir Thomas Richardson
(second husband of ER
) died, leaving her for the second time a widow.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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