Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough

Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough (3 December 1595 – 1 April 1638), was an English hereditary peer and Member of Parliament.[1]

He was baptised on 3 December 1595,[1] the eldest son of James Ley, a barrister and his first wife, Mary (née Petty). His father became a judge in 1603.[2] Following in his father's footsteps, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in January 1610[3] and was called to the bar in 1616.[4]

Ley was knighted in 1611 by James I. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Westbury in 1614 and 1624, for Devizes in 1621 and 1626 – 2 March 1626 and for Wiltshire in 1625.[1] He a Justice of the peace in Somerset from 1618 and Wiltshire from 1622, he was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Somerset for life in 1625.[1]

His father had been created Baron Ley in 1624.[2] When his father was created Earl of Marlborough in 1628, as his eldest son he entered the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration as Baron Ley. He succeeded his father as Earl of Marlborough the following year.[5]

Ley married Mary, daughter of Sir Arthur Capell of Little Hadham, by whom he had two children:[1]

By the time of his death he was estranged from his wife, who subsequently married his estate steward.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "LEY, Henry (1595-1638), of Heywood House, Heywood, Wilts. and Lincoln's Inn, London; later of Teffont Evias, Wilts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b "LEY, James (1550-1629), of Westbury, Wilts". Retrieved 9 January 2026.
  3. ^ Lincoln's Inn Register of Admissions. Vol. 1. 1896. p. 151.
  4. ^ The Black Books of Lincoln's Inn. Vol. 2. 1898. p. 188.
  5. ^ Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 2. London: Longmans, Green. p. 475.
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