Sir Stephen Lennard, 2nd Baronet (2 March 1637 – 15 December 1709) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England

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 in two periods between 1681 and 1701 and in the House of Commons of Great Britain

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 from 1708 to 1710.

Lennard was the son of Sir Stephen Lennard, 1st Baronet of West Wickham and his third wife Anne Oglander, daughter of John Oglander of Nunwell, Isle of Wight. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 29 January 1680.

From 14 March 1681 to 11 April 1685, Lennard was a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Winchelsea

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. He was a MP for Kent

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 from 27 July 1698 to 8 January 1701 and again from 19 May 1708 to 11 January 1710.

Lennard dropped dead of applexy aged 72 while walking in Drury Lane

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, London.

Lennard married Elizabeth Roy, daughter of Delalyne Hussey of Shapwick Dorset and widow of John Roy of Woodlands Dorset.