William Lenthall, was an English politician of the Civil War period, Speaker of the House of Commons. The second son of William Lenthall of North Leigh in Oxfordshire, a descendant of an old Herefordshire family, he was born at Henley-on-Thames. He left Oxford without taking a degree in 1609, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1616, becoming a bencher in 1633. He represented Woodstock in the Short Parliament (April 1640), … Wikipedia
William Lenthall, the Speaker of the House of Commons, was the son of William Lenthall Senior, of Lachford in Oxfordshire, and Frances Southwell. www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/wlenthall.html
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