Edward Salwey

Edward Salwey (* 1603 ; † after 1659) was an English lawyer and politician.

Life

Edward Salwey was the eldest son and heir to Humphrey Salwey and his wife Anne Littleton, the second daughter of Edward Littleton . He had four brothers, including Richard Salwey , and three sisters. He studied from 1621 at Brasenose College of the University of Oxford . In 1635 he was admitted to the Inner Temple as a barrister .

He belonged to the gentry of Worcestershire on inherited to 1652 by his father, the property Stanford Court in Stanford-on-Teme. In particular during the brief phase of the English Republic , he held public offices. In 1656 he was appointed Assessment Commissioner for Worcestershire and he was from January 1659 to April 1659 as a member of the House of Commons for Borough Droitwich .

Salwey was married to Dorothy Dryden, the third daughter of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet (1553-1632), squire of Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire . The marriage resulted in a son and three daughters:

• Edward Salwey, Barrister of the Inner Temple, died unmarried and childless.
• Mary Salwey ⚭ Colonel Rogers, Squire of Llan Vach in Monmouthshire , Governor of Hereford .
• Honara Salwey ⚭ Mr. Hanbury, from Glamorgan
• Elizabeth Salwey ⚭ Sir Francis Winnington (1634–1700), several descendants from this connection, starting with Salwey's grandson Edward Jeffreys , also represented the constituency of Droitwich for the next two centuries.

literature

• WR Williams: Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester. Jakeman and Carver, Hereford 1897, p. 126 ( archive.org ).
• John Burke: History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, Henry Colburn, London 1835, p. 153 ( archive.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Burke, John Bernard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster and Geary, London 1841, p. 172.