Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet (c. 1650 – 28 September 1716) was a British MP. He was born the son of

Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet (c. 1621 – 1665) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Life Acton was the son of Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet of Aldenham and his wife Sarah Mytton, who was the only da ...

and succeeded to the baronetcy and Aldenham Park near

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on the death of his father in 1665. He was educated at

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, where he was awarded MA on 4 May 1666ACTON, Sir Edward, 3rd Bt. (c.1650-1716), of Aldenham Hall, Salop
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in 1670 to study law. He became a barrister and

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Member of Parliament for

from 1689 until 1705. He commenced the rebuilding of Aldenham Park in the late 17th century. He was a freeman in

in 1673, in

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in 1676 and in

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in 1697. He held the office of

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for 1684–85 and was appointed Recorder of

in 1701. He retained his seat in the six succeeding Parliaments, generally voting with the Tories.

Family

He died in 1716 and was buried at Morville. He had married heiress Mary Walter, daughter of John Walter of Elberton, esquire of

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shire,John Burke, "A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire", Vol. 1, published by H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832, p.14 on 8 December 1674 and with her had the following children: *Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Bt. (1678 – January 1732) *Mary Acton (born 1678) *Edward Acton (1681–1741) *John Acton (born 1687) *Sarah Acton *Elizabeth Acton (1683-1738) *Frances Acton (died 29 October 1718) *Catherine Acton

References

Sources

* * * Robert Walcott, ''English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956) * David Hayton, "The Country Party in the House of Commons 1698-1699: a Forecast of the Opposition to a Standing Army?", ''Parliamentary History, Volume 6'' (1987), 141-63 {{DEFAULTSORT:Acton, Edward, 3rd Baronet 1650s births 1716 deaths Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple Baronets in the Baronetage of England High sheriffs of Shropshire English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1701 English MPs 1701–1702 English MPs 1702–1705

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