Background
Strickland was the son of Sir Thomas Strickland.
Strickland was the son of Sir Thomas Strickland.
Trinity College.
He supported the King Charles I during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge at Easter 1615. In 1638, Strickland received a colonel"s commission from the Viscount Wentworth, Lord Lieutenant of the county of York, to command 900 militia in the North Riding for Charles I during the Bishops" War.
And in 1640, he received the king"s commission from Algernon, Earl of Northumberland to regiment, accoutre, and march the same to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
In the English Civil War, he received a third commission to command a troop of horse (cavalry) which he is said to have supported in a great measure at his own expense. Strickland lived until after Restoration of the King Charles II: for in the next year after the said restoration, he was constituted by Thomas viscount Fauconberg one of the deputy lieutenants of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Happy Parliament]
In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland in the Happy Parliament.