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Thomas Edwards (MP for Wells)

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Edward died intestate in around June 1743, and left two daughters. Edward's daughters inherited money from Edward Colston through their mother, who was Colston's niece. At her marriage in 1731, the younger daughter Sophia was said to be worth £20,000.
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Edwards was the eldest son of Thomas Edwards of Redland and Broad Street, Bristol, and his first wife. His father was an attorney-at-law, and lawyer for
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However, he was unseated on petition on 25 March 1735, due to some irregularities in the poll.
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at a by-election on 14 December 1719, and topped the poll there at the
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after a turbulent contest, but was defeated at the next election in
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on 29 October 1691, at the age of 18 and was admitted at the
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Thomas Edwards (1673-1743)
Thomas Edwards (disambiguation)
English
House of Commons
Edward Colston
Balliol College, Oxford
Middle Temple
Hart Hall
called to the bar
Sir William Hayman
Member of Parliament
Bristol
1713 general election
1715
Wells
Somerset
1722 general election
1727
1734 general election
"'Eade-Eyton', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 440-479"



"EDWARDS, Thomas (c.1673-by 1743), of the Middle Temple and Filkins Hall, Oxon"
"COLSTON, Edward II (1636-1721), of Mortlake, Surr. | History of Parliament Online"
"'Broadwell Parish: Filkins', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17"


"EDWARDS, Thomas (?1673-1743), of the Middle Temple, London, and Filkins Hall, Oxon"
"De Londres, le 14 Avril 1735"

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