Edward Abney

Sir Edward Abney (6 February 1631 – 3 January 1727/28) was an English politician.

Abney was born in Newton, Leicestershire, the son of James Abney of Willesley, then in Derbyshire, now in Leicestershire, who had been Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1656. His younger brother was Thomas Abney, later Sir Thomas Abney, Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London. Edward was educated at Ashby School, Measham school and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1652–3. He was a Fellow of Christ's College from 1655 to 1661. Knighted in 1673, he served as MP for Leicester Borough from 1690 to 1698.[1]

He married twice. His first wife, Damaris Andrewes, was the daughter of Thomas Andrewes (died 1653),[2] a London merchant, son of Sir Thomas Andrewes (died 1659), Commonwealth Lord Mayor of London. Her mother was Damaris Cradock, daughter of Matthew Cradock (died 1641), first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company.[3] At the time of their marriage in 1661 Damaris Andrewes was the stepdaughter of the philosopher Ralph Cudworth, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, of which Abney was until that year a Fellow.[4] With Damaris he had a son and three daughters.

His second wife was Judith, daughter and coheiress of Peter Barr, merchant, of London, with whom he had two sons. His estate was left to Thomas, the younger son of his second marriage, the elder being considered insane.[5]

He was blind for the last twenty years of his life, dying in 1727/8.

References

"Abney, Edward (ABNY649E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Will of Thomas Andrewes, Leather seller of London (P.C.C. 1653).
These relationships are confirmed in the wills cited and in the Chancery case Andrewes v Glover (The National Archives), the participants in which are described in W.G. Watkins, 'Notes from English Records', New England Historical and Genealogical Register January 1910, Vol. LXIV, pp. 84-87.
D.A. Pailin, 'Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
A.A. Hanham, 'Abney, Sir Edward (1631-1728), of Willesley Hall, Leics. and Portugal Row, Lincoln’s Inn Fields', in D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks and S. Handley (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (from Boydell and Brewer, 2002), History of Parliament Online.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Lawrence Carter Thomas Babington	Member of Parliament for Leicester 1690–1698 With: Lawrence Carter 1690–1695 Archdale Palmer 1695–1698	Succeeded by Sir William Villiers Lawrence Carter

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[1] "Abney, Edward (ABNY649E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[2] Will of Thomas Andrewes, Leather seller of London (P.C.C. 1653).

[3] These relationships are confirmed in the wills cited and in the Chancery case Andrewes v Glover (The National Archives), the participants in which are described in W.G. Watkins, 'Notes from English Records', New England Historical and Genealogical Register January 1910, Vol. LXIV, pp. 84-87.

[4] D.A. Pailin, 'Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

[5] A.A. Hanham, 'Abney, Sir Edward (1631-1728), of Willesley Hall, Leics. and Portugal Row, Lincoln’s Inn Fields', in D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks and S. Handley (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (from Boydell and Brewer, 2002), History of Parliament Online.