Anthony Irby (died 1682)
Sir Anthony Irby (c. 1605 – 2 January 1682) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1682.
Irby was the eldest son of
Member of Parliament for Boston and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1637.[3]
In April 1640, Irby was elected MP for Boston again in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Boston for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge.[3]
Irby was re-elected MP for Boston in 1656 for the
Second Exclusion Parliament and in 1681.[3]
Irby married firstly, in 1623, Frances Wray, daughter of
Sir Edward Barkham, 1st Baronet, who died in 1640.[5] By his second and third wife, Irby had no surviving children, three daughters having died as infants.[5] On 19 August 1641, he married finally Catharine Paget, third daughter of William Paget, 4th Baron Paget, and had by her a son and five daughters.[6]
References
- ^ Thompson, Pishey (1856). The History and Antiquities of Boston. London: Longman and Co. pp. 393.
- ^ "Irby, Anthony (IRBY620A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c History of Parliament Online - Irby, Anthony
- ^ Collins, Arthur (1812). Sir Egerton Brydges (ed.). Collin's Peerage of England. Vol. VII. London: T. Bensley. p. 304.
- ^ a b Thompson, Pishey (1856). The History and Antiquities of Boston. London: Longman and Co. pp. 394–396.
- ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 131.
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