Henry Poley
Henry Poley (5 January 1654 – 7 August 1707) was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was the son of (1619–1671) who was MP for Bury St Edmunds, and brother of Edmund Poley the diplomat.[1]
Poley matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1672, and graduated B.A. in 1673, having been a fellow commoner since 1670. He was then a Fellow of the college to 1675. He entered Gray's Inn in 1669, and the Middle Temple in 1672, being called to the bar in 1678.[2]
He represented Eye between 1689 and 1695, West Looe between 1703 and 1705, and Ipswich from 1705 until his death in 1707.[3] On 5 March 1707 Poley was reported to be ‘dangerously ill’; he died on 7 August, aged 54, and was buried at Badley.
Notes[]
- ^ Handley, Stuart. "Poley, Edmund". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68401. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Poley, Henry (PLY670H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ historyofparliamentonline.org, Poley, Henry (1654-1707), of Badley, Suff. and Lincoln's Inn, London.
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