About Edward Unton
Lived 1534 – 1582 (aged 47–48). Edward Unton was a politician.
Sir Edward Unton KB (1534 – 16 September 1582) was an English politician, high sheriff and Knight of the Bath.
Edward was the eldest son of Sir Alexander Unton of Wadley House at Faringdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and his wife, Cecily, daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire. His younger son Sir Henry Unton was the English ambassador to France.
He was knighted in 1559; he was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1567.
He left heavy debts, and his daughter Scissil (or Cicely) and her husband John Wentworth had considerable difficulty obtaining the lands he had bequeathed to her as a result, difficulties which ended in a lawsuit.
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British politician
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Edward Unton was born in 1534.
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Edward Unton died on 16 September 1582.
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Edward Unton was a politician.
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· DBpedia: Edward Unton (high sheriff)
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