Family and Education
b. 16 June 1705, 1st s. of Rt. Hon. Edward Southwell, M.P., of Dublin and King’s Weston by his 1st w. Lady Elizabeth Cromwell, da. and h. of Vere Essex, 4th Earl of Ardglass [I]. educ. Westminster 1715-16; Queen’s, Oxf. 1721; travelled abroad 1723. m. 21 Aug. 1729 (with £10,000), Catherine, da. of Edward Watson, Visct. Sondes, sis. and h. of Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1730.
Offices Held
M.P. [I] 1727 – 55.
Jt. clerk of the Crown and prothonotary of King’s bench [I] (with his father) 1715 – 17; jt. sec. of the Council [I] (with his father) 1720 – 30, sole sec. 1730 – d.
Main residence: King's Weston, nr. Bristol, Glos.
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Commons 1715-1754
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SOUTHWELL, Edward (1705-55)
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Oxford 1644
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