Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet

Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet (1591 – 6 September 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.

Tollemache was the son of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet of Helmingham Hall and his wife Katharine Cromwell, daughter of Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell and was baptised at Helmingham on 15 August 1591. He was knighted at Whitehall on 15 November 1612 and succeeded to the baronetcy and Helmingham on the death of his father in 1621.^[1]

Helmingham Hall

In 1621, Tollemache was elected Member of Parliament for Orford. He was a Privy Councillor to James I and Charles I. In 1628 he was elected MP for Orford again and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.^[1]

Tollemache died suddenly at Tilbury in his 49th year, and was buried at Helmingham where there is a family monument which his father had begun and he himself completed.^[1]

He had a considerable reputation as a surgeon, but is said to have made many enemies due to his "immoderate temper".

Tollemache married Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope of Harrington and his second wife Margaret McWilliams, in about 1620 and had a son and six daughters. His son Lionel succeeded to the baronetcy. His daughter, Jane Tollemache, married Thomas Cholmondeley (b. 1627). Another daughter, Elizabeth Tollemache, married firstly William Alington, 1st Baron Alington, and secondly Sir William Compton, Master of the Ordnance (died 1663). A third daughter, Anne Tollemache, married Sir Robert Broke, 1st Baronet.^[1]

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