Sir Francis Harvey (born in 1568, died 2 August 1632) of Cotes,

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, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest surviving son of Stephen Harvey of Cotes, Northamptonshire and educated at

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and the

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(1582). He was

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in 1591. He succeeded his father in 1606 and was knighted in 1626. He was a bencher at the Middle Temple in 1609 and reader in 1609 and 1611. He was appointed a

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in 1614 and recorder for Leicester the same year. He was a

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in 1624. He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

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, Suffolk in 1597. He died in 1632 and was buried at Hardingstone, Northampton. He had married twice: firstly Elizabeth Hemming of Hertfordshire, a London widow, with whom he had, with four daughters, a son (who predeceased him in 1630, Sir Stephen Harvey 1600-1630 who married Mary Murden -1709 their daughter Sarah married William Rudyerd the son of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd MP). He married secondly Christian.

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1568 births 1632 deaths People from Hardingstone English MPs 1597–1598 Serjeants-at-law (England) 16th-century English lawyers {{16thC-England-MP-stub