Edward Eversfield (c. 1618 – c. 1676) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. ...

from 1660 to 1661. Eversfield was the son of Nicholas Eversfield of'' The Grove'', Hollington.History of Parliament Online – Eversfield, Edward
/ref> Eversfield was

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

(MP) for

Bramber Bramber is a former manor, village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It has a ruined mediaeval castle which was the ''caput'' of a large feudal barony. Bramber is located on the northern edge of the South Downs ...

from 1660 to 1661. In 1660 he became a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and a J.P. He was commissioner for assessment in Sussex from 1660 to 1663, for Surrey from 1664 to 1669 and for Sussex again from 1673 to 1674. In 1672 he became a freeman of Portsmouth. Eversfield first married (in 1644) Mary Muschamp daughter of Francis Muschamp of Bredinghurst, Camberwell and secondly (in 1666) Frances Roberts, widow of Richard Roberts of

Thorpe Langton Thorpe Langton (derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for an enclosure, meaning "long town") is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, about four miles north of Market Harborough. The parish had a population of 171 ...

, Leicestershire and daughter of Thomas Carleton of

Carshalton Carshalton () is a town, with a historic village centre, in south London, England, within the London Borough of Sutton. It is situated south-southwest of Charing Cross, in the valley of the River Wandle, one of the sources of which is Carshalton ...

. His third wife (1670) was Cecily Warmestry, a stepdaughter of

Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet (6 June 1620 – 11 March 1679), was an English politician. Covert was the son of Sir Walter Covert, of Maidstone, Kent, by Ann Covert, daughter and heiress of John Covert, of Slaugham, Sussex. He was created a baro ...

(MP for Horsham), and sister-in-law of John Machell (MP for Horsham).P. Watson, 'Machell, John (1637–1704), of Hills Place, Horsham, Suss.', in D. Hayton and D. Cruickshanks (eds), ''The History of Parliament 1690–1715'' (Boydell & Brewer, 2002)
(History of Parliament online).
/ref> His brother

John Eversfield John Eversfield (c. 1624 – 22 May 1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1661. Eversfield was the son of Nicholas Eversfield of ''The Grove'', Hollington. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and en ...

was MP for

Steyning Steyning ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham District, Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles (6.4 km) north of the ...

Anthony Eversfield Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a '' gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton ...

was MP for

Horsham Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

and Sir Thomas Eversfield was also an MP.

References

English MPs 1660 1618 births 1676 deaths Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber {{17thC-England-MP-stub