About Samuel Edwin
Lived 1671 – 1722 (aged 51). Samuel Edwin was a politician.
Samuel Edwin (12 March 1671 – 27 September 1722), of Llanmihangel Plas, Glamorgan, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons briefly in 1717.
Edwin was the eldest son of Sir Humphrey Edwin, who was Lord Mayor of London from 1697 to 1698, and his wife Elizabeth Sambrooke, daughter of Samuel Sambrooke, merchant of London. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford on 15 April 1687, aged 15 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 11 July 1689. He married Lady Catherine Montagu, daughter of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester by licence dated 20 September 1697. In 1707, on the death of his father, he inherited extensive properties in Westminster and Glamorgan.
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politician (1671-1722)
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Samuel Edwin died on 27 September 1722.
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Samuel Edwin was a politician.
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