Dryden baronets of Canons Ashby (1st creation, 1619)
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The Dryden baronetcy, of Canons Ashby in the County of Northampton, was created in the Baronetage of England on 16 November 1619 for Erasmus Dryden.[2] He was in the Fleet Prison in 1605, after signing a pro-Puritan petition of Sir Francis Hastings.[3] He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1598 and 1619, and subsequently Member of Parliament for Banbury in 1624.[2][3]
The 2nd Baronet represented Northamptonshire in the Long Parliament.[4] The title became extinct on the death of the 7th Baronet in 1770.[2]