Edward Owner
Edward Owner (1576–1650) was an English politician who sat in the
In 1621, Owner was elected
In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Yarmouth in the Short Parliament and was re-elected for the Long Parliament in November 1640.[2] He opposed Ship Money in parliament and voted it illegal. When the Civil War broke out, he worked to ensure that the town's defences were satisfactory and contributed financially to this purpose. In January 1646 he led a group of councillors and one of the town's ministers, Thomas Whitfield, in attempt to put down the town's independent congregation. In 1646 he was elected Bailiff of Yarmouth, which he attempted to refuse.[5] He is not recorded as sitting in parliament after Pride's Purge. He made charitable donations to the town of Yarmouth and left property in Ireland to the benefit of the council for the Children's Hospital School .[6]
Owner died in 1650, and was buried in the north aisle of Yarmouth's St Nicholas' Church.
References
- ^ The History of Parliament Trust, OWNER, Edward (1575-1650), of Great Yarmouth, Norf retrieved December 2017
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ British Farthings - 17th Century Tokens - Yarmouth
- ^ Great Yarmouth: free-fair', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 11 (1810), pp. 345-351.Date accessed: 23 June 2011
- ^ An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk, Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin
- ^ John Preston The picture of Yarmouth