PYE, Sir Edmund, 1st Bt. (c.1607-73), of Covent Garden, Westminster and Bradenham, Bucks.

Family and Education

b. c. 1607, o.s. of Edmund Pye, Scrivener, of Ludgate, London and Leckhampstead, Bucks. by Martha, da. of Thomas Allen, Haberdasher, of Ludgate. m. lic. 7 May 1635, aged 28, Catherine (d.1701), da. of Sir Thomas Lucas of Colchester, Essex, 3da. suc. fa. 1635; cr. Bt. 23 Apr. 1641; Kntd. 27 April 1641.Vis. London. (Harl. Soc. xvii), 183; (cix), 53; G. E. Cokayne, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 53; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 1103; PCC 49 Pye.

Offices Held

J.p. Bucks. July 1660 – d.; freeman, Chipping Wycombe 1661; commr. for assessment, Bucks. and Westminster 1661 – d., corporations. Bucks. 1662 – 63, loyal and indigent officers, Bucks., London and Westminster 1662.First Wycombe Ledger Bk. (Bucks. Rec. Soc. xi), 166; Huntington Lib. Stowe mss, 2/452.

Parlimentarian

PYE, Sir Edmund, 1st Bt. (c.1607-73), of Covent Garden, Westminster and Bradenham, Bucks.

Main residences: Covent Garden, Westminster; Bradenham, Bucks.

Author

L.N.

G.J.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

PYE, Sir Edmund (c.1607-73)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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