Sir Edward Hales, 1st Baronet

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Sir Edward Hales, 1st Baronet (1576–1654) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in various years between 1605 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.

Family

Edward Hales was the son of William Hales of Tenterden, Kent and Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Paul Johnson of Fordwich. His paternal grandfather was Edward Hales, third son of John Hales (1469/70 – c. 1540), Baron of the Exchequer, and younger brother of Sir James Hales (c. 1500–1554), Justice of the Common Pleas, whose suicide, the subject of a lawsuit in Hales v. Petit, is thought to be alluded to in the gravedigger's speech in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.^[1]

Career

Hales was elected MP for Hastings in 1605 and 1614, and appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1608–1609 ^[2] and was created a baronet by King James I on 29 June 1611.^[3]

In 1625, Hales was elected Member of Parliament for Queenborough for one parliament, and then in 1626 was elected MP for Kent for one parliament. In April 1640 he was re-elected MP for Queenborough for the Short Parliament. He was elected again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament, and held the seat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge.^[4]

Hales died in 1654 at the age of 78.

Marriages and issue

Hales married firstly Deborah Harlakenden, daughter of Martin Harlakenden of Woodchurch, Kent, and through her acquired the Woodchurch estates. He married secondly Martha Cromer, daughter of Sir Matthew Carew, and widow of Sir James Cromer of Tunstall, Kent, and through her acquired the Tunstall estates. She also inherited the manor of 'Herst Hall' in Murston.^[5]

His children by his first wife included a son, Sir John Hales, who pre-deceased him. He was then succeeded by his grandson Sir Edward Hales, 2nd Baronet. The latter was a Royalist and supporter of King Charles I, who attempted to raise an army for the King in Kent and was involved in an attempt to free the King when he was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle. Having incurred the wrath of both Parliament and his grandfather, the future second baronet fled to the Netherlands.^[6]

Footnotes

^ Hales 1882, pp. 62–4; Baker 2004; Baker 2010.
^ "HALES, Sir Edward (c.1577-1654), of Woodchurch, Kent and Gray's Inn, London; later of Tunstall, Kent". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
^ Debrett's Baronetage of England
^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
^ Hasted, Edward (1798). "Parishes". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. 6. Institute of Historical Research: 143–150. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
^ Hales 1882

References

Baker, J.H. (2004). "Hales, John (1469/70–1540?)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11912. Retrieved 4 January 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
Baker, J.H. (2010). "Hales, Sir James (c.1500–1554)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11911. Retrieved 4 January 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
Hales, R. Cox (1882). "Brief notes on the Hales Family". Archaeologia Cantiana. XIV. London: Kent Archaeological Society: 61–84. Retrieved 4 January 2013.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Roger Palmer Robert Poley	Member of Parliament for Queenborough 1625 With: Roger Palmer	Succeeded by Roger Palmer Robert Poley
Preceded by Mildmay Lord Buckhurst Sir Albertus Moreton	Member of Parliament for Kent 1626 With: Sir Edward Scott	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Finch Sir Dudley Diggs
Vacant Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for Queenborough 1640–1648 With: John Wolstenholme April 1640 – November 1640 William Harrison November 1640 – 1643 Sir Michael Livesey 1643–1648	Succeeded by Augustine Garland Sir Michael Livesey
Baronetage of England
New creation	Baronet (of Woodchurch and Tunstall) 1626–1654	Succeeded by Edward Hales

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