Silvester Sedborough (1515/16-1551), of

Porlock Porlock is a coastal village in Somerset, England, west of Minehead. At the 2011 census, the village had a population of 1,440. In 2017, Porlock had the highest percentage of elderly population in Britain, with over 40% being of pensionable ag ...

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, was an English politician.

Family

Sedborough was the eldest son of William Sedborough of Porlock and Joan, a sister and coheiress of Jerome Bratton of Porlock. Silvester Sedborough married twice, firstly to Anne Staveley, by whom he had one son, Robert, and two daughters. By 1550, he had married a woman named Mary.

Career

He was a

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(MP) of the

Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised t ...

for Bath in 1545.

References

1510s births 1551 deaths English MPs 1545–1547 People from Somerset {{16thC-England-MP-stub