Edward Clere (MP)

Edward Clere (1536–1606) was an English landowner and politician, serving as Member of Parliament for Thetford and Grampound.

[2] Edward Clere entertained Elizabeth at his house at the former St. George's Priory, Thetford, during her Norfolk progress in 1578.

[6] His monument at St Andrews' Blickling has the heraldry of ten ancestors, claiming lineage from a spurious "Clere Monte", a companion of the Duke of Normandy.

[7] Edward Clere's papers and correspondence were auctioned in lots in 1866 as part of the collection of Sir John Fenn.

She was the widow of John Smith of Halesworth, Francis Clopton of Melford, and Christopher Heydon (died 1579) of Baconsthorpe.