About Edward Owner
Lived 1576 – 1650 (aged 73–74). Edward Owner was a politician.
Edward Owner (1576–1650) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
In 1621, Owner was elected Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth. He was alderman and bailiff of Yarmouth in 1625, and closely connected to its Presbyterian faction, his daughter marrying the minister John Brinsley and was also re-elected MP for the town in the same year.
In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Yarmouth in the Short Parliament and was re-elected for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He is not recorded as sitting in parliament after Pride's Purge. He made charitable donations to the town of Yarmouth and left property in Ireland to the benefit of the council for the Children's Hospital School .
Owner died in 1650, and was buried in the north aisle of Yarmouth's St Nicholas' Church.
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