Sir Edmund Fortescue, 1st Baronet (baptised 22 September 1642 – 30 December 1666) was an English politician, MP for

Plympton Erle Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Pl ...

. He was the second son of Sir Edmund Fortescue of Fallapit and his wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Southcote. He was educated at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, matriculating in 1658. He married Margery, daughter of

Henry Sandys, 5th Baron Sandys Colonel Henry Sandys, 5th Baron Sandys (died 6 April 1644), was an English nobleman and Cavalier officer in the English Civil War. Sandys was the third and youngest, but only surviving, son of Sir Edwin Sandys (eldest son of Miles Sandys and n ...

. They had one son and two daughters: * Sir Sandys Fortescue, 2nd Baronet (1661–1683) * Jane Fortescue (1662–1682), married William Coleman * Sarah Fortescue (1664–1685) He was knighted and created a baronet on 31 March 1664, and elected MP for

in October 1666. He died on 30 December 1666, and was buried at

East Allington East Allington is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, south of Halwell and just off the A381 road. It lies about from Kingsbridge and about from Totnes. The coast at Slapton Sands is about to the south ...

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1642 births 1666 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford English MPs 1661–1679 Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of the Parliament of England for Plympton Erle {{England-baronet-stub