Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Knatchbull
Honorific-Suffix:	Bt
Office:	Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough
Term Start:	1727
Term End:	1760
Birth Date:	12 December 1704
Death Date:	21 November 1789 (aged 84)
Spouse:	Grace Legge
Parents:	Sir Edward Knatchbull Alice Wyndham

Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet (12 December 1704 – 21 November 1789)^[1] was an Irish politician.

He was the third son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Baronet and Alice Wyndham, daughter of Colonel John Wyndham.^[2] In 1763, he succeeded his nephew Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet as baronet.^[3] Knatchbull was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Armagh Borough in the Irish House of Commons from 1727 until 1760.^[4]

Knatchbull married Grace Legge, second daughter of William Legge.^[5] They had five daughters and three sons.^[5] He died, aged 84, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Edward.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leigh Rayment – Baronetage . https://web.archive.org/web/20080501225124/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsK.htm . 1 May 2008 . usurped . 11 April 2009 .
2. Web site: ThePeerage – Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Bt . 24 January 2009.
3. Book: Kimber, Edward . Edward Kimber

   . Edward Kimber . Thomas Wotton . Richard Johnson . The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets . I . 1771 . London . 403 .

4. Web site: Leigh Rayment – Irish House of Commons 1692-1800 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm . 7 June 2008 . usurped . 11 April 2009 .
5. Book: Debrett, John . G. Woodfall . fifth . Debrett's Baronetage of England . I . 1824 . London . 158 .
6. Book: Burke, John . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire . Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley . London . II . 4th . 1832 . 46–47 .