Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
British peer and Member of Parliament / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG (7 December 1564 – 6 October 1646[1]) was a British peer and Member of Parliament, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire from 1603 to 1619 and Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire from 1604 to 1646. He was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626.
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Born | 7 December 1564 |
Died | 6 October 1646 |
Title | 1st Earl of Mulgrave 3rd Baron Sheffield |
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Parent(s) | John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield Douglas Howard |
Relatives | Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (grandson) |
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He was the son of John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield and Douglas Howard, and the grandson of Sir Edmund Sheffield. His grandfather, a second cousin of Henry VIII, was raised to the Peerage in 1547 as Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick, and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.