Walter Overbury (1592–1637) was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1621 and 1626. Overbury was the son of Sir Nicholas Overbury of

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, Gloucestershire and his wife Mary Palmer. His father was Chief Justice of the Great Sessions for Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire in 1610, and Recorder of Gloucester from 1603 to 1626. Overbury matriculated at

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, on 16 June 1610, aged 18 and was awarded BA on 21 February 1612. His elder brother

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was poisoned in the

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on 19 October 1615. He was called to the Bar at the

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in 1617. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cardigan. He was elected MP for Cardigan again in 1626. In 1628 he was Registrar of Assurances in the City of London. W R Williams ''The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales''
/ref> Overbury died at the age of about 45 and was buried at Bourton-on-Hill on 6 April 1637. Overbury married firstly by licence dated 6 November 1621 Mary Pinchion (d. 1623), daughter of Sir Edward Pinchion of

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, Essex and niece of Richard Weston, the newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. He married secondly by licence, dated 21 June 1627, Magdalen, the widow of Edward Grimston of Bradfield, Essex and daughter of Thomas Marsham, a London merchant.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Overbury, Walter 1592 births 1637 deaths Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of the Middle Temple People from the City of London English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1626