Edward Hooper (MP)

Edward Hooper, FRS, (c. 1701–1795) of Worthy Park, Hampshire was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1748.

He was returned unopposed as a Whig Member of Parliament for Christchurch at the 1734 British general election.

He was rewarded by Pulteney, now Lord Bath, with a place as Paymaster of Pensions, worth £900 a year, on 13 July 1742.

In December 1748, he was appointed a commissioner of customs and vacated his seat in the House of Commons as a result.

From 1754 he controlled both seats, returning his cousin James Harris, for one, and putting the other at the Government's disposal.