Thomas Edwards-Freeman (younger)

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Thomas Edwards-Freeman (1754–1788) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1785 to 1788 .

The House of Commons is the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada and historically was the name of the lower houses of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Southern Ireland. Roughly equivalent bodies in other countries which were once part of the British Empire include the United States House of Representatives, the Australian House of Representatives, the New Zealand House of Representatives, and India's Lok Sabha.

Edwards Freeman was the only son of Thomas Edwards-Freeman of Batsford, Gloucestershire and his wife Elizabeth Reveley, daughter of Henry Reveley of Newby Wisk, Yorkshire. He matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford on. 31 Dec. 1772, aged 18. He married Mary Curtis daughter of John Curtis of Butcombe, Somerset. She died in 1781. ^[1]

Thomas Edwards-Freeman was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780.

Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 99. The village is about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a falconry centre close to the village and Batsford Arboretum is nearby, situated on the Cotswold escarpment.

On 9 August 1785 Edwards Freeman was returned at a by-election as Member of Parliament for Steyning on the Honywood interest. There is no record of his having spoken in the House. He died on. 23 March 1788. ^[1]

Steyning was a parliamentary borough in Sussex, England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons sporadically from 1298 and continuously from 1467 until 1832. It was a notorious rotten borough, and was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

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References

1 2 "EDWARDS FREEMAN, Thomas (1754-88)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

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Preceded by Sir John Honywood Hon. Richard Howard	Member of Parliament for Steyning 1785–1788 With: Hon. Richard Howard	Succeeded by Sir John Honywood Hon. Richard Howard

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