Sir Edmund Moundeford (1596 – May 1643) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1643.
He attended school at Wymondham, Norfolk under Mr Eston and was admitted at Caius College, Cambridge on 16 January 1612 aged 16.
[3] He was a friend of John Winthrop and was interested in trying to found a Puritan colony in the Caribbean.
By deed dated 10 September 1642, he left property consisting of marsh or fen ground in Feltwell, Norfolk, to pay for clothing for the poor of the village and a free school "for the teaching the children of the inhabitants grammar and other learning, freely".
Moundeford had four half-sisters through his father's second marriage to Abigail Knyvett, of whom Elizabeth, married firstly Miles Hobart and secondly Sir Hugh Cartwright, and Muriel married Sir Henry Clere, first and last of the Clere baronets of Ormesby.