Edmund Prideaux
Sir Edmund Prideaux (died 1659) was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament, who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. He was briefly solicitor-general but chose to resign rather than participate in the regicide of Charles I and was afterwards attorney-general a position he held until he died. During the Civil War and for most of the First Commonwealth he ran the postal service for Parliament.
Read more about Edmund Prideaux: Early Life, Long Parliament, Resignation Before The Regicide, Postal Service, Private Practice and Death, Family
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