Edmund Weaver (MP)

Edmund Weaver (2 February 1610 – March 1672) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1660.

Arms of Weaver, adopted c. 1370: Quarterly, 1&4: Or on a fess Azure cotised Gules two garbs Or. 2: Azure on a bend cotised Argent three escallops Gules (Bohun). 3: Sable a lion rampant double-queued Argent (Wastneys)^[1]

Weaver was the son of Richard Weaver (MP) of the Above Eign, Hereford and his wife Katherine Fox. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 20 June 1628 aged 17. He was then a student at the Inner Temple and qualified as a barrister in 1637.^[2] His father died in 1642.

In 1646, Weaver was elected Member of Parliament for Hereford as a recruiter to the Long Parliament.^[3] He withdrew in the aftermath of Pride's Purge in 1648, refusing to take part in the Rump Parliament.^[4] He returned to the Restored Rump Parliament in December 1659.^[2][4]

Weaver died in 1672 at the age of 62.

Weaver married Mary Elton in 1633.^[1] His daughter Margaret married Griffith Jones, MP for Radnor.^[5]

References

1. Michael Powell Siddons, Harleian Society, The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1634, 2002, pp68-69
2. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Weaver, Edmond" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
3. 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. 229–239.
4. McParlin, G. E., The Herefordshire gentry in county government 1625-1661. PhD thesis, Department of History, Aberystwyth University, 1981, pp151,172,209 McParlin claims he was a member of the Barebones Parliament but this is in direct contradiction to all sources based on parliamentary records
5. History of Parliament Online - Jones, Griffith