Montacute House is a late Elizabethan mansion with a garden in Montacute, South Somerset.
Sir Robert Killigrew (1580–1633) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1629. He served as Ambassador to the United Provinces.
Anthony Irby was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622.
Sir John Glanville the younger, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644. He was Speaker of the English House of Commons during the Short Parliament. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Sir Francis Popham (1573–1644) of Wellington, Somerset and Littlecote, Berkshire, was an English soldier and landowner who was elected a Member of Parliament nine times, namely for Somerset (1597), Wiltshire (1604), Marlborough (1614), Great Bedwin (1621), Chippenham 1624, 1625, 1626, 1628–29), and for Minehead (1640–1644).
Sir John Croke was an English judge and politician who served as Speaker of the English House of Commons between October and December 1601. He also served as Recorder of London, and won the City of London constituency in his election to the 1601 parliament, being the last Speaker before the death of Elizabeth I, in 1603.
Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629.
Sir Robert Phelips was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1604 and 1629. In his later Parliaments he was one of the leading spirits in the House of Commons and an opponent of James I, Charles I and their adviser Buckingham.
Nicholas Duck, of Heavitree and of nearby Mount Radford in the parish of St Leonards, both next to Exeter in Devonshire, was an English lawyer who served twice as a Member of Parliament for Exeter, in 1624 and 1625. He was one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince (1643–1723), whose wife was his great-niece.
Sir Robert Pye (1585–1662) was an English courtier, administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Sir Edward Rodney was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1642.
Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset (1579–1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1611. He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1626.
Sir Drue Drury was the son of Sir Robert Drury, the grandson of Sir Robert Drury, Speaker of the House of Commons, and the nephew of Sir William Drury. He was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1562 and 1584.
Edward Phelips was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679. He fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
George Wylde was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1611.
Sir Robert Berkeley was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624. He suffered considerably for giving a judgement in favour of Ship Money.
Sir Henry Ludlow (1592–1643) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1643.
Sir Simon Steward was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629.
Sir Edward Phelips Jr. esq of Montacute was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1661 and 1699.
Edward Phelips (1725–1797) was an English country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780.
