Alexander Pym
Alexander Pym (c. 1547 – 7 January 1585) was an English landowner.
Biography[]
Pym's family had been landowners in Brymore in Somerset since the thirteenth century. A lawyer, he was elected to Parliament for Taunton in November 1584, but died early the next year, leaving behind his infant son John. His widow remarried to Anthony Rous.[1]
References[]
- ^ M. R. P., PYM, Alexander (c.1547-85), of Brymore, Som. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (1981).
Categories:
- 1540s births
- 1585 deaths
- Members of the Middle Temple
- Members of the Parliament of England for Taunton
- English MPs 1584–1585
- 16th-century English MP stubs