Francis Brewster (1623 – 3 June 1671) was an English politician who sat in the

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in 1653 and 1656.

Biography

Brewster was the son of Robert Brewster of Wrentham Hall, Suffolk, by his wife Amy, daughter of Sir Thomas Corbet of

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, Norfolk ( Sprowston Hall). He was therefore a nephew of the

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Miles Corbet Miles Corbet (1595–1662) was an English politician, recorder of Yarmouth and a List of regicides of Charles I, regicide of King Charles I of England, Charles I. Life Born a member of the Corbet family he was the son of Sir Thomas Corbet ...

. He matriculated from

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at Easter 1642 and was admitted at

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on 26 May 1646. In 1653, he was nominated as Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He was elected MP for

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in 1656 for the

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, on the occasion on which his father interrupted his tenure of that seat to sit for the County. He married Cicely, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Charles Crofts of

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and had 2 daughters. Amy, the eldest, married Sir Philip Skippon, MP for Dunwich. He was succeeded by his brother Robert Brewster (died 1681), to whom Wrentham Hall passed.Burke, ''Landed Gentry'', I
p. 148
(Google). Misprints death of Francis "1761" for "1671".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brewster, Francis 1623 births 1671 deaths Members of Gray's Inn Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Place of birth missing People from Wrentham, Suffolk English MPs 1653 (Barebones) English MPs 1656–1658