Edward Griffin (MP)

Sir Edward Griffin (1587 – 5 May 1681) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644.

[1] King James and Anne of Denmark came from Kirby Hall and visited him at Braybrooke Castle on 12 August 1605.

[3] He gained the estates of his older brother, Sir Thomas Griffin, on his death in 1615.

[4] Thomas Griffin had married Catherine Morton, daughter of Sir John Morton, and secondly, Elizabeth Touchet, a daughter of George Touchet, Lord Audley, but had no male heir.

He was re-elected MP for Downton in the Long Parliament and sat until he was disabled on 5 February 1644.