Edward Southwell Jr.

Edward Southwell Jr. (16 June 1705 – 16 March 1755)[1] of King's Weston, Gloucestershire, was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland from 1727 to 1755 and in the British House of Commons from 1739 to 1754.

[3] Southwell married on 21 August 1729, to Lady Katherine Watson (died April 1765), daughter of Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes and Lady Katherine (née Tufton), and lived in Kings Weston House near Bristol.

Edward Southwell Jr. sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1739 to 1754 as MP for Bristol.

[1] Papers relating to Edward Southwell are held by Bristol Archives (Ref.

[4] Other records relating to Edward Southwell are held at Bristol Reference Library.