James Harington (1542–1614)


Sir James Harington, 1st Baronet of Ridlington, Rutland was an English politician.
He was the third son of Sir James Harington of Exton, Rutland and Lucy Sidney of Penshurst and educated at Shrewsbury Grammar School and Kings College, Cambridge.
Harington was High Sheriff of Rutland for 1593–94 and 1601–02 and Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1597 and 1604. He was knighted in 1601 and made a baronet on 29 June 1611. He was made High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1606, having acquired property in that county from his second wife.
He died on 3 February 1614. A monument on the north wall of the chancel of St Mary Magdalene and St Andrew, Ridlington, commemorates him and his first wife Frances Sapcote and their nine sons and seven daughters.

Family

He married as his first wife Frances Sapcote daughter and co-heir of Robert Sapcote of Elton. His second wife was Anne Bernard, the widow of John Doyley. In a double wedding in 1601 his eldest son also married Anne's daughter, co-heiress with Katherine Doyley Dyer of Doyley's estates at Merton, Oxfordshire.
Harington's children included;