Alexander Rigby was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1659 and 1660.

Rigby was the son of Alexander Rigby

Alexander Rigby

Alexander Rigby was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1650. He was a colonel in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.-Life:...

 of Middleton in Goosnargh near Preston and his wife Lucy Legh of Manchester. He succeeded father at Middleton in 1650.

In 1659, Rigby was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Lancashire

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 in the Third Protectorate Parliament

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. In April 1660 he was elected MP for Preston

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 in the Convention Parliament, but was unseated on petition.

Rigby died at the age of 73 and was buried on 4 March 1694.