Edmund Dunch (Elizabethan)
Sir Edmund Dunch (1551–1623) was an English MP and High Sheriff.
He was born the son of William Dunch (1508-1597) and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was returned as MP for Wallingford, (then in Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire) in 1571 and later for Wootton Bassett (1584–1585) and was High Sheriff of Berkshire for 1587 and 1603.
He married Anne Fettiplace in 1576. His sons Sir William Dunch (1578–1611) and Samuel Dunch both also represented Wallingford as MPs.
References
- Annells, P. (2006) The Berkshire Dunches.
- Hedges, J.K. (1881) Wallingford History, Wm Clowes, London