Edward Master

Sir Edward Master(s) (2 August 1610 – 22 January 1691) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.

Master(s) was High Sheriff of Kent in 1639.[1]

In April 1640, Master(s) was elected Member of Parliament for Canterbury for the Short Parliament. In November 1640, he was re-elected MP for Canterbury in the Long Parliament and remained until 1653, surviving Pride's Purge.[2]

Master(s) was elected MP for Canterbury in 1661 and sat until 1679 in the Cavalier Parliament.[3]

Master(s) died aged 80 and was buried with a memorial at St Paul's Church, Canterbury.[4]

References

  1. General history: Sheriffs of Kent, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 1 (1797), pp. 177-213. Date accessed: 17 November 2010
  2. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. onepage&q&f&#61, false 229–239.
  3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)
  4. Edward Hasted The History and topographical survey of the county of Kent, Volume 11
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Parliament suspended since 1629
Member of Parliament for Canterbury
1640–1653
With: John Nutt
Succeeded by
Not represented in Barebones parliament
Preceded by
Anthony Aucher
Heneage Finch
Member of Parliament for Canterbury
1661–1679
With: Francis Lovelace (1661–1664)
Thomas Hardres (1664–1679)
Succeeded by
Edward Hales
William Jacob


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