David Stradling

David Stradling (* before 1537, † after 1575) was an English politician who was once elected as a member of the House of Commons .

David Stradling came from the Stradling family , an old gentry family from Glamorgan . He was the second son of Sir Thomas Stradling and his wife Catherine Gamage . As a younger son, Stradling was educated at the Inner Temple in London. He was probably still studying when he and his older brother Edward Stradling were elected MP for Arundel in Sussex in the 1558 general election. The two brothers owed their election as MPs for Queen Maria's last parliament through their father's contact with the Earl of Arundel . Nothing is known about Stradling's activity as a member of parliament. After Queen Maria died and her half-sister Elisabeth ascended the throne in November 1558, Stradling went into exile as a passionate Catholic. In December 1566, his father deposited a financial contribution for him at a friend's house in London. Possibly he was staying with his sister Damascin , who was part of the retinue of Jane Dormer , the English wife of the Spanish Count of Feria in the Netherlands and Spain , or with another sister who lived in Leuven in the Netherlands. In November 1573 the Spanish King Philip IV is said to have received him in Madrid. There is little further evidence that Stradling continued to reside in both Spain and the Netherlands. Before 1575 he was back then to Flanders accompanying Lille . According to information from the Englishman Thomas Shirley , who was in the Netherlands in the 1580s, he had already died.

Web links

• RJW Swales: STRADLING, David (by 1537-75 or later), of Glam. (History of Parliament online, Ref Volumes: 1509–1558)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat's . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 37.
2. ^ Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat's . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 35.