Edward Walpole (died 1668)

Sir Edward Walpole KB (1621 – 18 March 1668) was an English politician and knight who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1668.

Walpole was the son of Robert Walpole of Houghton and his wife Susan Barkham, daughter of Sir Edward Barkham of South Acre who had been Lord Mayor of London.

He was a JP from June 1660 and Deputy Lieutenant and commissioner for assessment for Norfolk from August 1660 until his death.

In 1661 he was re-elected MP for King's Lynn in the Cavalier Parliament.

[1] Walpole died at the age of about 46 and was buried at Houghton, Norfolk.