Edward Lewis (30 July 1650 – July 1674) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1669 to 1674.
Lewis was the son of
William Lewis of The Van Glamorgan, also an MP for Devizes.
He succeeded to the estates of his father in 1661 and travelled abroad from 1663 to 1666. In 1669 he was elected
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Devizes
Devizes () is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-cent ...
. He became a freeman of Devizes in 1670 and was
Deputy Lieutenant for Glamorgan from 1670 until his death. He was
J.P. for Monmouthshire, Glamorgan and Breconshire from 1672 and commissioner for assessment for Monmouthshire and Glamorgan from 1673.
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Lewis died in London before 23 July 1674, when his will was proved by his brother-in-law William Jephson, who inherited Boarstall
Boarstall is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, about west of Aylesbury. The parish is on the county boundary with Oxfordshire and the village is about southeast of the Oxfordshire market town of Bi ...
, his Buckinghamshire
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estate. His younger brother had predeceased him, and the estates in Wales went to his uncle Richard Lewis.[
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References
1650 births
1674 deaths
English MPs 1661–1679
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