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Family and Education
b. c. 1610, 4th but 2nd surv. son of Sir Francis Popham*;Burke Commoners, ii. 198. bro. of John Popham† and Alexander Popham*. educ. M. Temple 14 Nov. 1632.M. Temple Admiss. i. 127. m. 15 Oct. 1645, Ann, da. of da. of William Kerr of Linton, Roxburgh, groom of the bedchamber to James I, 1s. 1da.Burke Commoners, ii. 198; ‘Kerr of Fernihirst’, The Genealogist, ii. 290-1. d. 19 Aug. 1651.Sydney Pprs. ed. R.W. Blencowe (1825), 115.
Offices Held

Military: lt. Henrietta Maria 1636;CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 485. capt. Fifth Whelp 1637, Antelope 1640.CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 512; A List of the Colonels [1640, 669.f.3.1]. Officer (parlian.), regt. of Alexander Popham, 1642 – 43, 1644 – 45; col. by June 1645.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 585. Gen.-at-sea, 24 Feb. 1649, 28 Feb. 1651–d.A. and O.

Local: dep. lt. Som. 1643–d.CJ iii. 1b. Member. Som. co. cttee. 1643; Wilts. 1648. 27 Mar. 1643CJ iii. 1b, v. 669b. Commr. sequestration, Som.; commr. for Som. 1 July 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Glos. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650;A. and O. sewers, Som. 15 Nov. 1645-aft. Jan. 1646.C181/5, ff. 263, 268. J.p. Glos. 9 May 1646–d.;C231/6, p. 45. Som. c.June 1646–d.;Harington’s Diary, 27. Wilts. by 29 Mar. 1649–d.C231/6, pp. 146, 148. Commr. militia, Som., Wilts. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Bath Dec. 1645.Bath and NE Som. RO, Bath council bk. 1631–49, p. 226.

Religious: elder, Bath and Wrington classis, Som. 1648.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 415.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs, 13 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 138a.

Parlimentarian
POPHAM, Edward (c.1610-51), of Littlecote, Wilts.
: Wilts.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, family group, unknown;Whereabouts unknown; photograph, Sothebys. miniature, ?S. Cooper;Whereabouts, unknown; photograph, V. and A. stipple engraving, S. de Wilde, late eigthteenth or early nineteenth century;BM. line engraving, unknown, late eigthteenth or early nineteenth century;NPG. fun. monument, attrib. W. Wright, Westminster Abbey.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

POPHAM, Edward (c.1610-51), of Littlecote, Wilts.

Will
not found.
Estates
land around Queen Charlton, Som.Som. RO, DD/POT/151.
Oxford 1644
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