Sir Edward Griffin (1587 – 5 May 1681) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1640 to 1644. Griffin was a son of Sir Edward Griffin of Dingley and Gumley Ewing, Northamptonshire. He matriculated at

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on 16 October 1601, aged 14. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1604. He was knighted on 20 May 1625. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Greenhill-Gysby', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 600-625. Date accessed: 1 March 2011
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came from

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and visited him at Braybrooke Castle on 12 August 1605. King James knighted him at Grafton on 19 August 1608. He gained the estates of his older brother, Sir Thomas Griffin, on his death in 1615. Thomas Griffin had married Catherine Morton, daughter of Sir John Morton, and secondly, Elizabeth Touchet, a daughter of George Touchet, Lord Audley, but had no male heir. His first wife was Lucy. He married secondly Frances Uvedale, a daughter of

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. His wife, or his brother's widow, Lady Griffin, attended the funeral of Anne of Denmark in 1619 as a lady of the Privy Chamber.John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 541. In April 1640, Griffin was elected

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for Downton in the

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. He was re-elected MP for Downton in the

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and sat until he was disabled on 5 February 1644. Following the Restoration, Griffin was

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from 1660 to 1679. Griffin is said to have died in 1681 at an advanced age.

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