Sir Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh, ,
Bt, (21 June 1581 – buried 2 January 1645) was an
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politician.
Life
Barrett was the son of Charles Barrett of
Belhouse, Essex and his wife Christian Mildmay (a daughter of
Sir Walter Mildmay). He matriculated at
Queen's College, Oxford
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on 17 March 1597 and entered
Lincoln's Inn
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in 1600. He was knighted on 17 April 1608.
[ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Baal-Barrow', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 51–78. Date accessed: 19 November 2011]
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In 1614 Barrett was elected Member of Parliament
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for Whitchurch. He was elected MP for Newport in 1621.[ In 1625, he was Ambassador to France.
Barret was created Lord Barrett of Newburgh in Scotland on 17 October 1627 and was made a ]baronet
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a year later (a unique occurrence of someone being made a baronet after being made peer). In 1628, he was invested as member of the Privy Council
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. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer
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from 1628 to 1629, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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from 1629 to 1644. He was a Lord of the Treasury
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from 1641 to 1643.[
In August 1637 he wrote to the ]Earl of Middlesex
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that Henrietta Maria
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was unwell at Oatlands and was drinking asses milk, thought to be a remedy for consumption. He wrote to Middlesex about the Earl of Arundel
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who had fallen from his horse at Tart Hall. The Countess of Arundel was "pained by his obstinate, as some think ridiculous, resolution to go to Madagascar
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Barret died at the age of 63 and was buried at Aveley on 2 January 1645.[
Barret married Jane Cary (d. 1633), daughter of Sir Edward Cary of ]Aldenham
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, Master of the Jewel House
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. He married secondly, Catherine Fenn, daughter of Hugh Fenn of Wotton-under-Edge
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, and widow of Hugh Perry ''alias'' Hunter, a London mercer.Virginia C.D. Moseley & Rosemary Sgroi, 'BARRETT, Sir Edward (1581-1644), of Belhus, Aveley, Essex and Smithfield, London', ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629'', ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
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Barrett was married twice but had no heirs, so that upon his death in 1645, his titles became extinct. He left his papers to Edward Perry, his widow's grandson.
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1581 births
1645 deaths
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