Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet (25 May 1687 – 11 November 1739) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

politician. Crofton was the son of

Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet (11 October 1748 – 30 September 1797) was an Irish politician. Crofton was the son of Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Baronet and his wife, Catherine (née Crofton) and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death o ...

and Katherine St George, daughter of

Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet (died October 1695) was an Irish Member of Parliament. Biography Oliver St George was the son of Sir George St George of Carrickdrumrusk and Katherine Gifford, and grandson of Richard St George, Clarenceux King o ...

. He sat in the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ...

as the

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for Roscommon Borough between 1713 and his death in 1739.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.81 (Retrieved 31 March 2020). In 1733 he was made a member of the

Privy Council of Ireland His or Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier centuries the Irish Council, was the institution within the Dublin Castle administration which exercised formal executi ...

. He married Mary Nixon, daughter of Anthony Nixon of Dublin, on 4 March 1711 and succeeded to his father's title on 24 November 1729. Upon his death, he was succeeded by his eldest son,

Edward Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...

. The later Crofton Baronets were descended from his daughter Catherine, who married

Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Baronet Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Baronet (died 17 January 1784) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was born Marcus Lowther, the son of Gorges Lowther MP, of Kilrue, County Meath, and Jane Beresford, daughter of Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet a ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crofton, Edward, 3rd Baronet 1687 births 1739 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1713–1714 Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland

Members of the Privy Council of Ireland