Edward Griffin (MP)
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Sir Edward Griffin (1587 – 5 May 1681) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644.
Griffin was a son of Sir Edward Griffin of Dingley and Gumley Ewing, Northamptonshire.
He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 16 October 1601, aged 14. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1604. He was knighted on 20 May 1625.[1]
King James and Anne of Denmark came from Kirby Hall and visited him at Braybrooke Castle on 12 August 1605.[2] King James knighted him at Grafton on 19 August 1608.[3]
He gained the estates of his older brother, Sir Thomas Griffin, on his death in 1615.[4] Thomas Griffin had married Catherine Morton, daughter of Sir John Morton, and secondly, Elizabeth Touchet, a daughter of George Touchet, Lord Audley, but had no male heir.[5]
His first wife was Lucy. He married secondly Frances Uvedale, a daughter of William Uvedale.[6]
His wife, or his brother's widow, Lady Griffin, attended the funeral of Anne of Denmark in 1619 as a lady of the Privy Chamber.[7]
In April 1640, Griffin was elected member of parliament for Downton in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Downton in the Long Parliament and sat until he was disabled on 5 February 1644.[8]
Following the Restoration, Griffin was Treasurer of the Chamber from 1660 to 1679.
Griffin is said to have died in 1681 at an advanced age.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Greenhill-Gysby', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 600-625. Date accessed: 1 March 2011
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), pp. 173-4, 526.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 207.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 526.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 173.
- ^ Archaeological Journal, 17 (London, 1860), p. 278, miniatures at Audley End.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 541.
- ^ 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.