Edward Phelips Jr.

Sir Edward Phelips Jr. esq of Montacute[1] (1638 – 4 April 1699) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1661 and 1699.

He was high steward of Ilchester from 1679 to his death and a colonel of militia horse, Somerset between 1679 and 1687.

In 1680, he was foreman of the grand jury, and succeeded to Montecute on the death of his father in the same year.

[2] Phelips married firstly in about 1667, Dorothy Bury, widow of John Bury of Colleton Barton, Chulmleigh, Devon, and daughter of Henry Cheeke of West Newton, North Petherton, Somerset.

[2][1] Phelips' daughter, Anne married her cousin Edward Phelips and their daughter, Bridget married Sir Gerrard Napier, 5th Baronet of Middle March.

Arms of Phelips: Argent, a chevron gules between three roses of the second seeded or barbed vert
Edith Blake, 2nd wife of Edward Phelips