page_title: Edward Bromley
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Bromley / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: St Peter the Apostle, Worfield, Shropshire. Effigies of George Bromley, a notable judge of the Tudor period and Joan Waverton of Hallon.
context_page_description: Sir Edward Bromley was an English lawyer, judge, landowner and politician of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. A member of a Shropshire legal and landed gentry dynasty, he was prominent at the Inner Temple and became a Baron of the Exchequer. He was elected MP for Bridgnorth on six consecutive occasions.
context_section_description: Edward Bromley was the second son of
  Sir George Bromley of Hallon, near Worfield, in Shropshire, the son of George Bromley of Hodnet. Sir George, like his father, was an important figure at the Inner Temple and a considerable politician on the regional stage, becoming chief legal officer of the Council in the Marches of Wales and chief justice of Chester. His career was, however, overshadowed by that of his younger brother, Edward's uncle, Thomas Bromley, who became Lord Chancellor.
  Joan Waverton, the daughter of John Waverton of Worfield. The name is also rendered Wannerton, as on her tomb, and Waterton. The Wavertons had held Hallon (also rendered "Hawne") for probably only one generation. On acquiring it through marriage, George Bromley had made it his seat and the family home.
  Edward Bromley's elder brother, Francis, was the heir to the Bromley estates. He had two more brothers and three sisters, who all married into regionally powerful gentry families. The gentry dominated Shropshire and, generally, its boroughs politically and culturally, as there was unusually no resident aristocracy in the county.
caption: Effigies of George Bromley and Joan Waverton of Hallon, his wife, in St Peter's church at Worfield
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