Edward Mainwaring, MP, Sheriff of Strattfordshire

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About Edward Mainwaring, MP, Sheriff of Strattfordshire

Family and Education b. 1577, 1st s. of Edward Mainwaring of Whitmore by Jane, da. of Matthew Craddock of Staffs. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 1594; M. Temple 1595. m. 1600, Sarah (d.1648), da. and coh. of John Stone, haberdasher, of Bow Churchyard, London, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1604.

Offices Held Mayor, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1609, 1640, 1643; j.p. Staffs. 1615; sheriff 1645-6.

Biography Whitmore was some four miles from Newcastle, for which borough Mainwaring was returned while still at the Middle Temple. He was a parliamentarian in the civil war, and died in 1647. The 1625 MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme was his son.

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He was the Sheriff of Staffs in 1646 and espoused the cause of the Parl(y) in the Civil War. He purchased the Manor of Knutton in 1595, and entered the Middle Temple that year. He was MP of Newcastle in 1601 and 1625, mayor of Newcastle in 1609.

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Edward Mainwaring, MP, Sheriff of Strattfordshire's Timeline

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Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England (United Kingdom)
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Whitmore Hall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
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