About Sir Edmund Pye, 1st Baronet
Lived 1607 – 1673 (aged 65–66). Sir Edmund Pye, 1st Baronet was a politician.
Sir Edmund Pye, 1st Baronet ( – 1673) was an English landowner and politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1673.
Pye was the son of Edmund Pye of St Martin, Ludgate, London, scrivener, and his wife Martha, daughter of Thomas Allen haberdasher of Ludgate. A wealthy man, his father bought the manor of Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire in 1628. later recalled that she often stayed with 'my sister Pye' when she was in London.
Pye had married into a staunchly royalist family, his brothers-in-law John, Thomas and Charles all fought for the king in the English Civil War. Pye purchased the manor of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire. In 1662 Martha married John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace. Their only son having died before his father, their heir was their daughter Martha, who inherited Bradenham from the Pyes and the title Baroness Wentworth from her paternal grandmother. She was the second wife of the wealthy politician and shipowner Henry Johnson.
Pye died at the age of about 65 and was buried on 28 April 1673 at Bradenham, when the baronetcy became extinct.
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