Sir Edward Hales, 2nd Baronet (1626 – c. 1684) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1681.
He was a devoted Royalist, and risked his life trying to rescue Charles I from his imprisonment at Carisbrooke.
His father died in 1652 and he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather in September 1654.
[3] and evidence of the birth of a second and third son, John Hales, bap.
Dec 1652 can be found in the registers at St John the Baptist, Tunstall.