Edward Boscawen (Truro MP, born 1628)

Edward Boscawen (1628 – 28 October 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1659 and 1685.

[1] He derived a huge income from his copper mines at Chacewater and Gwennap where he was the principal landowner.

[2] The Chacewater mine, now known as Wheal Busy, was located in what was known at one time as "the richest square mile on Earth".

[3] He was apprenticed to a Turkey Merchant in 1648 and then to his uncle John Rolle (1598–1648), MP, who strongly resisted the Tonnage and poundage taxation.

His son was Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth (1680–1734) who had served as a Cornish MP before his elevation to the peerage.

The memorial stone of Jael Boscawen at St Mary Abbots , Kensington:
"...revered by all as well as by her relations as being confessedly the ornament, and at the same time the tacit reproach of a wicked Age."