Edmund Breres (1580 - 1625) was an English politician who sat in the

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in 1624. Breres was the son of Alexander Breres of Chorley or Preston in Amounderness. He was admitted at

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on 25 November 1602.Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn 1521-1889
/ref> In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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for the

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.William Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven ''The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c.'' (1889)
/ref> Breres married a daughter of Thomas Tyldesley, of Tyldesley, the Attorney-General of Lancashire.

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1580 births 1625 deaths English MPs 1624–1625 Members of Gray's Inn {{1624-England-MP-stub