Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet (died April 1657) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1621 and 1629. He fought for the

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cause in the

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Biography

Peyton was the eldest son of

Sir John Peyton, 1st Baronet Sir John Peyton, 1st Baronet (1561 – December 1616) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1611. Biography Peyton was the eldest surviving son of Robert Peyton of Isleham and his wife, Eliz ...

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and his wife Alice Osborne, daughter of Sir Edward Osborne,

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.George E. Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Vol. 1'' (1900)
/ref> He was educated at Bury School. He was knighted at

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on 18 March 1611. On 16 August 1611, he was admitted to

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. He succeeded to the

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and estates on the death of his father in December 1616. He was also owner of

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, Suffolk. In 1618 he was awarded MA by the

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. In 1621, Peyton was elected

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for

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. He was

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from 1622 to 1623. In 1625 he was re-elected MP for Cambridgeshire and was returned again in 1626. He took an active part in the Civil War on the Parliamentary side, but so impoverished himself that he had to sell Isleham. Peyton died at

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and was buried at

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in London.

Family

Peyton married firstly on 24 April 1604, at

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, Surrey, Martha Livesey, daughter of Robert Livesey, of

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, Surrey. She died in 1613 and he married secondly on 6 June 1614, at

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, London, Jane Thimblethorpe, widow of Sir Henry Thimblethorpe, and daughter of Sir James Calthorpe, of

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. He married thirdly on 13 December 1638 at St. James', Clerkenwell, Dorothy Minshaw. His widow married Rev. Edward Lowe, Vicar of Brighthelmstead, Sussex, who survived her. Peyton was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son by his first wife .

References

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