Sir Edward Bashe was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  between 1628 and 1640.

Bashe was the son of Ralph Bashe, of Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire and his wife Frances Carey, daughter of Sir Edward Carey, Master of the Jewel Office

Master of the Jewel Office

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. He matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse, Cambridge

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 in Autumn 1608. He received a knighthood at Theobalds on 6 June 1616.

Bashe was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Stamford

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 in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. In April 1640, he was elected MP for Grantham

Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)

Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England.The constituency was created in 1468 as a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until the union with Scotland, and then to the Parliament of Great Britain...

  in the Short Parliament

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Bashe lived at Stanstead Abbots which had previously belonged to Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

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 and which was granted to Bashe's grandfather Edward Baeshe

Edward Baeshe

Edward Baeshe or Bashe was an English naval administrator and politician.He was born the son of Richard Baeshe of Worcester.He worked under Thomas Cromwell, and in 1550 became surveyor-general of victuals for the navy...

in 1559. Bashe died in 1653 and was.buried at Stanstead Cussans, Hertfordshire. By deed of 10 November 1635 and under his will he founded charities to support almshouses and a school at Stanstead.

Bashe married Mary Montagu, daughter of Sir Charles Montagu. He had no children and his property went to a cousin Ralph Bashe.