Edmund Bastard (politician)

Edmund Bastard (1758–1816) of Sharpham, Ashprington, Devon, was a British Tory politician.

He was the second son of Colonel William Bastard of Kitley House, Yealmpton, Devon by his wife Anne Worsley.

In 1787, he was elected unopposed, after in August 1787 George Rose recommended him to William Pitt.

[1] On 1 July 1783 Bastard married Jane Pownoll (died 1822), daughter and heiress of Captain Philemon Pownoll (died 1780), Royal Navy, the builder of Sharpham House, by whom he had children including his eldest son and heir, Edmund Pollexfen Bastard (1784–1838), who succeeded John Pollexfen Bastard as MP for Devonshire; and second son, Captain John Bastard (died 1835), Royal Navy, of Sharpham, who succeeded his father as member for Dartmouth.

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John Pollexfen Bastard (left) and Edmund Bastard (right), etching by Samuel William Reynolds , after James Northcote (1795), the National Portrait Gallery .