Sir Edward Hales, 2nd Baronet (1626 – c. 1684) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1660 to 1681. Hales was the son of Sir John Hales and his wife Christian Cromer, daughter of Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall and grandson of

Sir Edward Hales, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Hales, 1st Baronet (1576–1654) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in various years between 1605 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War. Family Edward Hales was the son of Wil ...

. He matriculated at

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on 20 May 1642, aged 16. He was a devoted Royalist, and risked his life trying to rescue Charles I from his imprisonment at Carisbrooke. His father died in 1652 and he succeeded to the

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on the death of his grandfather in September 1654. In August 1660, Hales was elected at a by-election as

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for

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in the Convention Parliament. He was elected MP for

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in 1661 for the

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and was re-elected for Queenborough in 1679 for the two exclusion parliaments. Hales died in France between August 1683 and February 1684. Hales married Anne Wootton, the youngest of the four daughters of

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of Marlby and his wife Mary Throckmorton. His only son

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succeeded to the baronetcy. Although

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records that Edward was the eldest of four sons. and evidence of the birth of a second and third son, John Hales, bap. 1647 & Thomas Hales bap. Dec 1652 can be found in the registers at St John the Baptist, Tunstall.

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