Sir Edward Wardour (died 14 March 1645/6) was an English office holder and politician who sat in the

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between 1621 and 1625. Wardour was a native a

Malmesbury Malmesbury () is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately west of Swindon, northeast of Bristol, and north of Chippenham. The older part of the town is on a hilltop which is almost surrounded by the up ...

and held the office of

Clerk of the Pells The Pell Office was a department of the Exchequer in which the receipts and payments were entered upon two rolls of parchment, the one called the ''introitta'', which was the record of monies received, and the other the ''exitus'', or the record of ...

.Robert E. Ruigh ''The Parliament of 1624: politics and foreign policy''
/] He was knighted by the King at Whitehall on 20 July 1618.Knights of England
/ref> In 1621, he was elected

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for

. He was re-elected MP for Malmesbury in 1624 and 1625.Browne Willis ''Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences'' 1750 pp176-239
/ref> Wardour died in 1646 and was buried at

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.Anthony Wood ''Survey of the Antiquities of Oxford''
/ref> Wardour married Jane Bowdler, who died on 20 January 1652 and was buried by him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wardour, Edward Year of birth missing 1646 deaths English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1624–1625 English MPs 1625