Edward More (MP)
Sir Edward More (c. 1555–1623) of Odiham in Hampshire was an English Member of Parliament. He was a Justice of the Peace for Surrey and Sussex from c. 1582 to c. 1587, and for Hampshire from c. 1584. He succeeded his father in 1581 and was knighted in 1600. Origins. He was the son of John More (d. 1581) of Canon Row in Westminster, and of Crabbet in the parish of Worth in Sussex, a Member of Parliament for Winchelsea, by his wife Agnes Moulton (d. 1557), daughter and heiress of John Moulton of Lancashire and Westminster . Career. More commenced his study of law at the Middle Temple, bound with his father and Richard Inkpen, but his name disappears from Middle Temple records after a fine for absence from readings and a pardon for another on grounds of ill health. It shortly reappears among the Gentlemen Pensioners at court. Between the late 1570s and the death of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), at whose funeral he was an official attendant, he divided his time between the court and his country estates in Sussex and later Hampshire. He corresponded at length with Robert Cecil over the will of Lady  Dacre (d. 1595) (widow of Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre), who left a large part of her estates in Sussex and London to the Cecil family. More was one of the executors of the will. Marriages and children. More fathered several illegitimate children, but married twice: