Edward Whitby (c.1578 - 8 April 1639) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1629.
[1] He was of Dunham on the Hill, Cheshire, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1596 at the age of 18, graduating with a BA in 1599.
Whitby was accused of official corruption and the committee voted to remove him from office.
[7] He was re-elected MP for Chester in 1621, 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.
[1] His house at Bache Hall was demolished during the siege of Chester in the English Civil War, when Parliamentary troops used it as a garrison.