Background
Le Strange was the son of Sir Nicholas le Strange of Norfolk and his wife Mary Bell, and great grandson of the Member of Parliament Sir Nicholas L"Estrange.
Le Strange was the son of Sir Nicholas le Strange of Norfolk and his wife Mary Bell, and great grandson of the Member of Parliament Sir Nicholas L"Estrange.
He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was admitted at Queens" College, Cambridge on 26 July 1601. He was knighted on 13 March 1604.
From 1608 to 1609 he was High Sheriff of Norfolk.
He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Norfolk in 1621. In 1625 he was elected Member of Parliament for Castle Rising and was re-elected Member of Parliament for Castle Rising in 1626.
During the Civil War, le Strange served as Royalist Governor of King"s Lynn in 1643. Le Strange married Anne Stubbe, daughter of Richard Stubbe, of Sedgeford, Norfolk.
Another son Roger was a religious pamphleteer, while a third, Nicholas, became a baronet.
Le Strange died in 1654 at the age of about 70.
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In 1614, le Strange was elected Member of Parliament for Norfolk.