Edward Rogers (comptroller)

Sir Edward Rogers (c. 1498 – 3 May 1568[1]) was an English gentleman who served as an Officer of State in various capacities during the Tudor period.

He was a Justice of the Peace for Dorset and Somerset and was elected a Member of Parliament for Tavistock in 1547, the year of Henry VIII's death.

[4][5] Rogers had quarreled with the powerful Seymour family, but at the fall of the Lord Protector in 1549 he once again advanced at court.

A staunch Protestant, Rogers opposed Mary's restoration of Catholicism, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1554.

[4] On her accession in 1558, Queen Elizabeth appointed him Vice-Chamberlain, Captain of the Guard, and Privy Councillor on the recommendation of his old friend Sir Nicholas Throckmorton.

Portrait of Sir Edward Rogers aged 69, holding his white staff, the mark of his office. National Portrait Gallery, London .