Edward Popham (MP for Bridgwater)

Edward Popham (1581–1641) was an English Member of Parliament for Bridgewater in 1621, 1624, 1625 and 1626, and was also Sheriff of Somerset for the year 1622/23.

He was the eldest son of Alexander Popham of Huntworth and Dowsabell, daughter John Bayley of ?Salisbury, Wiltshire, and educated in the law at the Middle Temple (1600).

[1] In May 1607 Popham abandoned the law to sail on an expedition to establish a colony at Sagadahoc, Maine.

He died childless and bequeathed his remaining estate, to which his title was by now disputed, to his brother.

[1] Popham married twice: firstly Dorothy (died 1614), the daughter of Richard Bartlett of Berkshire, with whom he had a son who predeceased him and secondly Anne, the daughter of Henry Gifford and the widow of Sir John Portman of Orchard Portman, Somerset.