Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet

Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet (11 April 1672 – 5 April 1735) was a Welsh landowner and politician[1] and a baronet in the peerage of England.

St Donat's Castle, the seat of the Stradlings

He was the eldest surviving son of Sir Edward Stradling, 4th Baronet of St Donat's Castle, Glamorganshire and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his father in 1685.[2]

Stradling was Member of Parliament for Cardiff, 1698, 1700–01, 1710–22, and Sheriff of Glamorgan, 1709–10.

He died in 1735, having married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Edward Mansel, 4th Baronet, M.P., of Margam, Glamorganshire, with whom he had two sons. The elder son, Edward, predeceased him in 1726, and the younger son and heir, Sir Thomas, who died in mysterious circumstances in Montpelier (France) in 1738, was the last Stradling of St Donat's. As a result of an understanding between Thomas Stradling and his friend Sir John Tyrwhitt, whereby each promised the other his inheritance in the event of his death, St Donat's passed to the Tyrwhitts.

References

1. "Stradling family". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
2. Thomas, Peter D.G. (1970). R. Sedgwick (ed.). "STRADLING, Edward (1699-1726), of St. Donat's Castle, Glam". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

Parliament of England
Preceded by Thomas Mansel	Member of Parliament for Cardiff Boroughs 1698 – 1701	Succeeded by Thomas Mansel
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Sir John Aubrey, Bt	Member of Parliament for Cardiff Boroughs 1710 – 1722	Succeeded by Edward Stradling