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GRAHAM (or GRAHME), RICHARD, 1ST VISCOUNT PRESTON (S), eldest son of Sir George Graham, Bart., Netherby, Cumberland and Norton Conyers, Yorkshire, and Lady Mary Johnstone, second dau. of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell (S); b. 24 Sep 1648; succ. father as 3rd baronet 19 Mar 1657/8; at school 1660-4 (as Richard Grimes) (Busby’s account book); a boarder; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Jun 1664; MA 4 Feb 1666/7; adm. Inner Temple 1664; MP Cockermouth Jun 1675-81, Cumberland 1685-7; although a Protestant, was a zealous advocate of the right of the Duke of York (James II) to the succession; created Viscount Preston (S) 12 May 1681; Envoy Extraordinary to France 1682-5; he and Lord Middleton managed the House of Commons for James II; Privy Councillor 21 Oct 1685; Master of the Great Wardrobe 11 Dec 1685 – 11 Dec 1688; Lord Lieut., Cumberland and Westmorland 29 Aug 1687 – 8 Apr 1689; Secretary of State Oct - Dec 1688; one of the Council of Five left by James II in London Nov 1688; created an English baron by James II at St. Germain 21 Jan 1689, but his claim was subsequently disallowed by the House of Lords; arrested and sent to the Tower for planning the restoration of James II 1689; rearrested while carrying treasonable papers on board a smack bound for Calais 1 Jan 1691; sentenced to death at the Old Bailey 19 Jan 1691, but pardoned after making confessions implicating William Penn and others; committed to Newgate for refusing to give evidence at a trial Aug 1691, but soon released on bail; retired to his Yorkshire estate and revised his translation of Boethius, published posthumously; m. 2 Aug 1670 Lady Anne Howard, second dau. of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle; d. 22 Dec 1695. DNB.
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.