Family and Education
b. 1498 /1502, 1st s. of George Rogers of Langport by Elizabeth. m. by 1528, Mary, da. and coh. of Sir John Lisle of I.o.W. 1s. George ?3da. suc. fa. 9 Sept. 1524. Kntd. 22 Feb. 1547.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m. C142/41/1, and that given on portrait, R. C. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, i. 268; Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. xi), 128; C142/41/1, 56; PCC 11 Babington.
Offices Held
?Servant of the Courtenay fam. c. 1525; esquire of the body by Dec. 1534; bailiff, Hammes and Sangatte 17 Dec. 1534 – Oct. 1540; j.p. Dorset 1538 – 40, Som. 1538–53 or later, q. 1558/59; sewer, the chamber by 1540, carver by 1544, one of the four principal gent. 15 Oct. 1549 – Jan. 1550; v.-chamberlain, the Household Nov. 1558 – Jan. 1559, comptroller 21 Jan. 1559 – d.; PC Nov. 1558 – d.; commr. ordnance 1568.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Cannington, Som.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
ROGERS, Sir Edward (98/1502-68)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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