Sir Dudley Digges was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1629. Digges was also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia Company of London; his son Edward Digges would go on to be Governor of Virginia. Dudley Digges was responsible for the rebuilding of Chilham Castle, completed in around 1616.
Anthony Irby was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622.
Sir William Armine, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1651. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet JP was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625.
Francis Moryson was an English soldier who became a Virginia colonial official and agent. A Royalist in the English Civil War, he emigrated to the Virginia Colony, where he held several posts before returning to England and becoming the colony's agent, and finally briefly served on the commission investigating Bacon's Rebellion.
Sir Francis Popham (1573–1644) of Wellington, Somerset, 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 Wray, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1621 and 1654. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War.
Sir Thomas Jervoise was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1653. He was a staunch supporter of the Parliamentary side during the English Civil War.
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1668. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He succeeded by special remainder to the peerage of his son who predeceased him.
Sir Richard Harrison was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1640. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.
Sir Roger North was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1648.
Sir Charles Morrison, 1st Baronet of Cashiobury in Watford, Hertfordshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1628.
Sir Christopher Hilliard or Hildyard was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1629.
Sir John Jephson was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1625. He married into two prominent Anglo-Irish families, and spent much of his career in Ireland.
Thomas Moryson or Morrison, of Cadeby, Lincolnshire, was a 16th-century English politician who sat as MP for Grimsby from 1572 until 1589.
Sir Richard Spencer was an English nobleman, gentleman, knight, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1629 and in 1661. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Sir Robert Vernon KB (1577–1625) was an English landowner, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.
Sir Edward Lawley was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622.
Sir Henry Harington of Bagworth and Baltinglass, English and Irish landowner and soldier, known for his defeat at Arklow in 1599.
