He was a freeman in Bridgnorth in 1673, in Much Wenlock in 1676 and in Ludlow in 1697.[4] He held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1684–85 and was appointed Recorder of Bridgnorth in 1701.[5] He retained his seat in the six succeeding Parliaments, generally voting with the Tories.[2]
Family
He died in 1716 and was buried at Morville. He had married heiress Mary Walter, daughter of John Walter of Elberton, esquire of Somersetshire,[6] on 8 December 1674[2] and with her had the following children:
^John Burke, "A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire", Vol. 1, published by H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832, p.14
Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
David Hayton, "The Country Party in the House of Commons 1698-1699: a Forecast of the Opposition to a Standing Army?", Parliamentary History, Volume 6 (1987), 141-63