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Edward Master

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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 to 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. 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 Member of Parliament for Canterbury
1661-1679
With: Francis Lovelace (1661-1664)
Thomas Hardres (1664-1679)
Succeeded by