Edward Lawley

Sir Edward Lawley (baptized 9 January 1586 – 23 May 1623) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622.

Lawley was the son of Sir Thomas Lawley of Wenlock and his wife Elizabeth Newport, daughter of Sir Richard Newport (died 1570) of High Ercall, Shropshire, who was the widow of Francis Lawley of Spoonhill.

[1][2] He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1604, then admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1605 and became prothonotary and clerk of the crown for Pembrokeshire.

[3] In 1614, Lawley was elected Member of Parliament for Wenlock.

[1] Lawley died in May 1623, the year after he succeeded to his father's estates, aged 37.