Edmund Dunch (Roundhead)
Edmund Dunch, 1st Baron Burnell of East Wittenham (1602–1678) was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause before and during the
Biography
Edmund Dunch was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for
A Royal warrant was issued for his arrest in 1639 for failure to pay
After the capture of Charles I, Dunch survived
After Oliver Cromwell's son
Family
Edmund Dunch was the son an heir of Sir William Dunch of Little Wittenham, Berkshire (d. 22 January 1611), by Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Williams (alias Cromwell) (grandfather of the Protector Oliver Cromwell).[2] This made him a cousin of John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell.
Edmund Dunch married Bridget daughter of Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney in Gloucestershire, and inherited £60,000 on her father's death.[8] His son Hungerford Dunch (1639–1680) was also an MP for Wallingford, as was his grandson Edmund Dunch, the last of the male line of the Dunches.
Notes
- ^ a b Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ^ a b c d e Cokayne 1912, p. 436.
- ^ The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9
- ^ Hedges 1881, p. 103.
- ^ Cokayne 1912, pp. 436, 437 states "that it was to [Dunch] and the heirs male of his body" and under footnote d notes "In Banks' Baronia Anglica, vol. i, p. 145 (where the descent of Dunch from Burnell, through Hungerford, is fully set out) are some pertinent remarks as to the "vested power in the Sovereign de facto to create honours" under the Act 11 Hen. VII, &c. In the case of the only other Hereditary peerage conferred by the Protector, viz. that of Charles Howard, who by patent, 20 July 1657, was cr. Baron Gilsland and Viscount Howard of Morpeth, the fortunate patentee and noble cat-in-pan was cr., 30 April 1661, by Charles II, not only a Baron and Viscount (as above) but even an Earl, as Earl of Carlisle. The Viscountcy promised by the Protector to Bulstrode Whitelocke appears to have gone no further than the signature, 21 August 1658, to the Bill for the patent. A record has been printed of the attendances of the Members of the other House. Its existence was but brief, viz. from 20 Jan to 4 February 1658, and from Jan. to Apr. 1659. For a list of the members of this Assembly see vol. iv, Appendix G."
- ^ Cobbett 1808, pp. 1518, 1519.
- ^ Cokayne 1912, p. 437 states "In 1659 he is said (probably incorrectly) to have been one of the Committee of Safety".
- ^ Cokayne 1912, p. 437 states "Bridget, only da. and h. of Sir Anthony Hungerford, of Down Ampney, co. Gloucester (who d. 1637), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Lucy. The fortune of this lady was above £60,000, and she was h. gen. and lineal descendant of Edmund Hungerford [younger son of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford], and Margaret (Burnell) his wife, granddaughter and coh. of Hugh, Lord Burnell, and was consequently h. to a moiety of that Barony, which accounts for her husband's creation by that title."
References
- Annells, P. (2006) The Berkshire Dunches.
- Cobbett, William, ed. (1808). Cobbett's parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest, in 1066 to the year, 1803: from which last-mentioned epoch it is continued downwards in the work entitled, "Cobbett's parliamentary debates". Vol. 3. London: R. Bagshaw.
- Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1912). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Bass to Canning). Vol. 2. London: The St. Catherine Press, ltd. pp. 436, 437.
- Hedges, John Kirby (1881). Wallingford History, in the County of Berks: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the present time. Vol. 1. London: Wm Clowes. pp. 103, 201, 218.
External links
- Wallingford History Gateway Archived 15 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine