Edward Bayntun (died 1679)

Sir Edward Bayntun (2 December 1618 – 26 July 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1679.

Bayntun was the son of Sir Edward Bayntun of Bromham, Wiltshire and his wife Elizabeth Maynard, daughter of Sir Henry Maynard of Eaton, Essex.

[1] He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford on 15 January 1636, aged 17.

He was re-elected MP for Devizes for the Long Parliament in November 1640[3] and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge in 1648.

[3] After the Restoration, Bayntun was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath in 1661 and had a command in the Scots army.