Edward Wise (MP)

This article is about the 17th-century MP from Okehampton. For the 20th-century MP from Leicester East, see Edward Frank Wise.

Edward Wise was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1675.

Wise was the son of Thomas Wise, also an MP; and the grandson of Sir Thomas Wise and of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester. He was from Marystow in Devon.[1] In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Okehampton in the Third Protectorate Parliament, He was elected in 1660 to the Convention Parliament. In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Okehampton for the Cavalier Parliament.[2]

References

  1. Wright, William William Henry Kearley. Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions: including the journals kept by Messrs. Rattenbury and Shebbeare, Gents. and Burgesses, from the 21 James I., to the death of William III.; with notes genealogical, descriptive, and explanatory. W. Masland, 1889; p. 98
  2. History of Parliament Online - Wise, Edward
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Not represented in Second Protectorate Parliament
Member of Parliament for Okehampton
1659
With: Robert Everland
Succeeded by
Not represented in Restored Rump
Preceded by
Not represented in Restored Rump
Member of Parliament for Okehampton
1660-1677
With: Josias Calmady 1660
Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet 1661-1671
Sir Arthur Harris 1671-1677
Succeeded by
Sir Arthur Harris
Henry Northleigh


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