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The title was created in 1547 for Sir Richard Rich who was made Baron Rich, of Leez. Rich was a prominent lawyer and politician, who served as Solicitor General and Speaker of the House of Commons and was Lord Chancellor of England from 1547 to 1551.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564.
Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (December 1559 – 24 March 1619), was an English nobleman, known as Baron Rich between 1581 and 1618, when he was created Earl of Warwick. He was the first husband of Penelope Devereux , whom he divorced in 1605 on the grounds of her adultery .
Arms of Rich: Gules, a chevron between three crosses botonée or. The Rich family was a noble family of England that held the peerage titles of Baron Rich, Earl of Warwick, Baron Kensington, Earl of Holland and Baronet Rich during a period spanning the 16th–18th centuries.
Robert Rich wrote a "verse pamphlet", "Newes from Virginia: the lost flocke triumphant." [ note 2 ] [ 3 ] Along with the writings of William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain , became well known in England by 1610, when Thomas Gates and Christopher Newport retold the saga in London.
Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich (c1537-1581) was an English nobleman. He was the eldest son of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Jenks of London. [1] He married around 1555 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Baldrey (d. 1540) [2] and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Baldry, Lord Mayor of London in ...
Rich, half of the American country music duo Big & Rich; ... Baron Rich, an extinct title in the Peerage of England; Rich baronets, ...
Sir Charles Rich, 1st Baronet (c. 1619–30 May 1677), Rich was the fourth son of Sir Edwin Rich and grandson of Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich (see Earl of Warwick).He married Elizabeth Cholmeley, by whom he had two daughters and co-heirs, Elizabeth, married Peter Civell, and Mary, married Robert Rich, of Stondon, Essex.