Richard_Weaver_(MP)

Richard Weaver (MP)

Richard Weaver (MP)

English politician

Richard Weaver (1575 – 16 May 1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1642.

Arms of Weaver, adopted c.1370: Quarterly, 1&4: Or on a fess Azure cotised Gules two garbs Or. 2: Azure on a bend cotised Argent three escallops Gules (Bohun). 3: Sable a lion rampant double-queued Argent (Wastneys)[1]

Weaver was the son of Edmund Weaver of Stapleton, Llanandrad, Herefordshire and his wife Margery Burhope.[2]

In 1621, Weaver was elected Member of Parliament for Hereford and was re-elected until 1626.[3] In 1627 he was elected Mayor of Hereford.[4]

In April 1640, Weaver was elected again MP for Hereford in the Short Parliament and in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He held the seat until his death in 1642.[3] Weaver died at the Above Eigne, Hereford, aged 66 and was buried in Hereford Cathedral.[5]

Weaver married Katherine Fox.[5] Their son Edmund Weaver was also MP for Hereford.

References

  1. [1]
    Michael Powell Siddons, Harleian Society, The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1634, 2002, pp68-69
  2. [2]
    Richard Weaver
  3. [3]
    Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  4. [4]
    Hereford City Council - Mayors Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    Monumental Inscriptions in the Cathedral Church of Hereford
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