Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Baronet
by Thomas Hudson
Sir Edmund Isham (1690–1772), 6th Baronet of Lamport, Northamptonshire was a Member of Parliament for several successive terms during the reigns of Kings George II and George III of England.
Biography
Edmund Isham was born on 18 December 1690 to Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet of Lamport, Northamptonshire and his wife Elizabeth Turnor. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford and embarked on a legal career, but became Baronet of Lamport on 5 March 1737 when his older brother Justinian III died unexpectedly. He was easily elected a few days later on 31 March 1730 to his brother's seat in Parliament as the Tory Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire, and he ran unopposed each successive term after that for the rest of his life. He died on 15 December 1772, and was succeeded as baronet by his nephew Justian Isham, the son of his younger brother, the Reverend Euseby Isham. There is a painting of Sir Edmund by Thomas Hudson that hangs at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Hayton, D., Cruickshanks, E. and Handley, S. (2002), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 5 vol. The biography for Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Bt. is available online at The History of Parliament. accessed 10 April 2013.