Family and Education
b. c. 1555, o.s. of John More of Crabbet by Anne or Agnes, da. of John Moulton of Lancs. and Westminster. educ. ?Hart Hall, Oxf. by 1568; M. Temple 1 May 1571. m. (1) Mary (d. 29 Oct. 1591), da. and coh. of Adrian Poynings of Wherwell, Hants, 5s. 1da.; (2) Lady Frances Brooke, da. of William Brooke alias Cobham, 10th Lord Cobham, wid. of John, 9th Lord Stourton, 1da. Several ch. illegit. suc. fa. 1581. Kntd. 1600.Suss. Rec. Soc. xxxiii. 1, 16; Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 172-3; Manning and Bray, Hist. Surr. i. 626, 628; CPR, 1553 and App. Ed. VI, 310; VCH Hants, iv. 97.
Offices Held
Gent. pens. by 1577 – d.; j.p. Surr., Suss. from c. 1582 – c.87, Hants from c.1584.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Crabbet, Worth, Suss.; Canon Row, Westminster; Odiham, Hants.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
MORE, Edward (c.1555-1623)
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Oxford 1644
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