Henry Ludlow (c. 1577 – 13 October 1639) was an English politician who sat in the

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between 1601 and 1611. Ludlow was the son of Sir Edmund Ludlow and his first wife Bridget Coker, daughter of Henry Coker of Mappowder, Dorset. He was educated at

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in 1591 and at

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in 1595. In 1601, he was elected

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for

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. He was elected MP for Ludgershall in 1604. History of Parliament Online - Henry Ludlow
/ref> A piece of libellous verse "''The Censure of the Parliament Fart''" was composed in response to an audible emission by Ludlow in parliament in 1607.Early Stuart Libels
/ref> :''Downe came grave auntient Sir John Crooke
And redd his message in his booke.
Fearie well, Quoth Sir William Morris, Soe:
But Henry Ludlowes Tayle cry’d Noe.
Up starts one fuller of devotion
Then Eloquence; and said a very ill motion
Not soe neither quoth Sir Henry Jenkin
The Motion was good; but for the stincking
Well quoth Sir Henry Poole it was a bold tricke
To Fart in the nose of the bodie politique'' In 1624 Ludlow succeeded to the estates of his father. Ludlow died at the age of about 63. He had married Lettice West, daughter of

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of Wherwell, Hanpshire and Offington, Sussex and had four sons and five daughters. His stepbrother also

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was also an MP.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ludlow, Henry 1570s births 1639 deaths Alumni of Hart Hall, Oxford

Members of the Middle Temple English MPs 1601 English MPs 1604–1611