Sir Edward Duke, 3rd Baronet (c. 1694–1732), of

Benhall Benhall is a civil parish in the East Suffolk District, East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. Lying to the south of Saxmundham, its population at the 2021 census was 569. The main settlement is Benhall Green, while the hamlet of Benhall St ...

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

, was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1721 to 1722 Duke was the only son of

Sir John Duke, 2nd Baronet Sir John Duke, 2nd Baronet (3 January 1632 - July 1705 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1679 and 1698. Duke was the son of Sir Edward Duke, 1st Baronet of Benhall, Suffolk and his wife Ellenor Pan ...

MP and his wife Elizabeth Duke, daughter of Edward Duke, MD. His father died in 1705 and he succeeded to Benhall and the

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. He married Mary Rudge, daughter of Thomas Rudge of Staffordshire on 1 December 1715. Duke was elected as Tory Member of Parliament for Orford at a contested by-election on 29 December 1721 and sat for the last months of the Parliament. He did not stand at the 1722 general election. Duke died on 25 August 1732. He had a son and daughter who did not survive and the baronetcy became extinct on his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Duke, Sir Edward, 3rd Baronet 1690s births 1732 deaths British MPs 1715–1722 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England