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Edward Southwell Jr. (16 June 1705 – 16 March 1755) of King's Weston, Gloucestershire, was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland from 1727 to 1755 and in the

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from 1739 to 1754. Southwell was the son of Edward Southwell (1671–1730) and Elizabeth Cromwell, 8th Baroness Cromwell and the grandson of Sir Robert Southwell. He was educated at Westminster School from 1715 to 1716 and matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1721. He travelled abroad from 1723. Southwell sat in the Irish House of Commons for Downpatrick from 1727 until his death. He succeeded his father as Principal Secretary of State (Ireland) in 1730, and on 6 May 1732 he was appointed to the

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. Southwell married on 21 August 1729, to Lady Katherine Watson (died April 1765), daughter of Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes and Lady Katherine ( Tufton), and lived in Kings Weston House near Bristol. Their son,

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, later became Baron de Clifford. Edward Southwell Jr. sat in the

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from 1739 to 1754 as MP for Bristol.

Personal papers

Papers relating to Edward Southwell are held by Bristol Archives (Ref. 44785 and 45317/2/5/1)
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. A travel journal, dating from 1725 to 1726, is held in the British Library Manuscripts Collections. Other records relating to Edward Southwell are held at Bristol Reference Library.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Southwell, Edward 1705 births 1755 deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 People from Gloucestershire (before 1904)