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Walter Leveson

Walter Leveson

1550–1602

Occupation
politician

Sir Walter Leveson (1550 – 20 October 1602) was an Elizabethan Member of Parliament and a Shropshire and Staffordshire landowner who was ruined by involvement in piracy and mental illness.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Fleet Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Sir Walter Leveson (1550 – 20 October 1602) was an Elizabethan Member of Parliament and a Shropshire and Staffordshire landowner who was ruined by involvement in piracy and mental illness.

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