sentences:  He succeeded to the baronetcy and to Boynton Hall, near Scarborough at the age of nineteen on his father's death in November 1684.In 1689, Strickland was returned as Member of Parliament for Malton, a Yorkshire pocket borough controlled at that period by his father-in-law, who occupied its other seat himself.He was returned at Malton unopposed in seven elections until the 1708 general election when he decided to stand at Yorkshire and vacated his seat at Malton in favour of his son, William.