Edward Lawley

Sir Edward Lawley (baptized 9 January 1586 – 23 May 1623) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622.

Biography

Lawley was the son of Sir Thomas Lawley of Wenlock and his wife Elizabeth Newport, daughter of Sir Richard Newport (died 1570) of High Ercall, Shropshire, who was the widow of Francis Lawley of Spoonhill.^[1][2] He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1604, then admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1605 and became prothonotary and clerk of the crown for Pembrokeshire.^[3] In 1614, Lawley was elected Member of Parliament for Wenlock.^[2] He was knighted at Whitehall on 9 November 1619.^[4] In 1621 he was re-elected MP for Wenlock.^[2]

Family

Lawley married Susan Fisher, daughter of Sir Thomas Fisher, 1st Baronet of Islington. He had one daughter Ursula who married Roger Bertie (died 1654), second son of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey.^[1] Lawley died in May 1623, the year after he succeeded to his father's estates, aged 37. His widow died at the end of the same year.^[2]

Notes

1. Betham 1801, p. 450.
2. Healy 2010.
3. Inner Temple 1868, p. 103.
4. Shaw 1906, p. 175.

References

• Betham, William (1801). The baronetage of England: or The History of the English baronets. p. 450.
• Healy, Simon (2010). "Lawley, Edward (1586-1623), of Much Wenlock, Salop and St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. Cambridge University Press.
• Inner Temple (1868). Students admitted at the Inner Temple 1571 – 1625. London: Printed by F. Cartwright. p. 103.
• Shaw, William Arthur (1906). The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland . Vol. 1. London: Sherratt and Hughes. p. 175.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Robert Lawley George Lawley	Member of Parliament for Wenlock 1614 With: Rowland Lacon 1614 Thomas Wolryche 1621–1622	Succeeded by Thomas Wolryche Henry Mytton