Sir Walter Devereux was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 at various times between 1614 and 1641.

Devereux was the son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG was an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599...

 and his wife Frances Walsingham

Frances Walsingham

Frances Walsingham, Countess of Essex and Countess of Clanricarde was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State, she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 14. Her second husband was Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's...

, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham

Francis Walsingham

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 and widow of Sir Philip Sidney. He matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford on 16 November 1604, aged 13. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Pembroke

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. He was knighted on 2 September 1617. In 1624 he was elected MP for Pembroke again. He was elected MP for Tamworth

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  in 1626 and in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

In April 1640 Devereux was elected MP for Lichfield

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 in the Short Parliament

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. He was re-elected MP for Lichfield for the Long Parliament

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in November 1640 and sat until his death in the following year.

Devereux died at the age of of about 50 before 12 August 1641.