Edward Harley of Eywood, Titley

Titley

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, Herefordshire

Herefordshire

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, Auditor of the Imprests

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 was the second son of Edward Harley

Edward Harley (Parliamentarian)

Sir Edward Harley KB was an English Parliamentarian.He was born in Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, the son of Sir Robert Harley, KB and his third wife Brilliana, the daughter of Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway...

 and younger brother of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. He married Sarah Foley, third daughter of Thomas Foley. Their eldest son (Edward

Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was a British peer.Harley was the son of Edward Harley and his wife Sarah Foley. He succeeded his cousin Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer in the earldom in 1741...

) succeeded as 3rd earl on the death of his brother Robert's son Edward

Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , styled Lord Harley between 1711 and 1724, was a British politician, bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts.-Background:...

, the 2nd earl, without male issue. Their second son was Robert who died in infancy, after which came a daughter named Abigail and finally a fourth son Robert Harley, Recorder

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 of Leominster

Leominster

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 and twice member of Parliament for that town.

He represented Droitwich

Droitwich (UK Parliament constituency)

Droitwich was the name of a constituency of the House of Commons of England in 1295, and again from 1554, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918...

 in Parliament from 1695 to 1698, after which he was a member for Leominster

Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)

Leominster was, until 2010, a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.From 1295 to 1868, it was a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election. Under the Reform Act 1867 its...

, almost continuously until 1722.

Source

• thepeerage.com
• Burke's Peerage (1851 edition).
• Sarah Harley funerary monument, Brampton Bryan church, Herefordshire.