Edmund Prideaux (Roundhead)

For other people named Edmund Prideaux, see Edmund Prideaux (disambiguation).

Arms of Prideaux

Edmund Prideaux (died 1659) of Forde Abbey, Thorncombe, Devon,[1] was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament, who supported the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War. He was briefly solicitor-general but chose to resign rather than participate in the regicide of King Charles I. Afterwards, he was 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.

  1. ^ Later in Dorsetshire