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2 unusual facts about Henry Slingsby


Henry Slingsby

Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet (1602 – 1658), English Royalist landowner and Member of Parliament

Siege of York

Eventually, when Rupert and Newcastle had appealed to them, 3,000 men (with a mounted troop of 100 "Gentleman Volunteers") rejoined their colours and marched off about midday on 2 July, leaving 1,000 (the regiments of John Belasyse, Sir Thomas Glemham and Sir Henry Slingsby of Red House) to hold the city.



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