Richard Weaver (MP)

Richard Weaver (1575 – 16 May 1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1642.

Arms of Weaver, adopted c.1370: *Quarterly, 1&4: Or on a fess Azure cotised Gules two garbs Or. 2: Azure on a bend cotised Argent three escallops Gules (Bohun). 3: Sable a lion rampant double-queued Argent (Wastneys)*^[1]

Weaver was the son of Edmund Weaver of Stapleton, Llanandrad, Herefordshire and his wife Margery Burhope.^[2]

In 1621, Weaver was elected Member of Parliament for Hereford and was re-elected until 1626.^[3] In 1627 he was elected Mayor of Hereford.^[4]

In April 1640, Weaver was elected again MP for Hereford in the Short Parliament and in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He held the seat until his death in 1642.^[3] Weaver died at the Above Eigne, Hereford, aged 66 and was buried in Hereford Cathedral.^[5]

Weaver married Katherine Fox.^[5] Their son Edmund Weaver was also MP for Hereford.

References

^ Michael Powell Siddons, Harleian Society, The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1634, 2002, pp68-69
^ Richard Weaver
^ ^a ^b Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
^ Hereford City Council - Mayors Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Monumental Inscriptions in the Cathedral Church of Hereford

Parliament of England
Preceded by John Hoskyns John Warden	Member of Parliament for Hereford 1621–1626 With: James Rodd 1621–1622 Sir James Clerk 1624–1626	Succeeded by Sir John Scudamore John Hoskyns
Vacant Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for Hereford 1640–1642 With: Richard Seaborne	Succeeded by James Scudamore Richard Seaborne

[Siddons-1] Michael Powell Siddons, Harleian Society, The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1634, 2002, pp68-69

[2] Richard Weaver

[Willis-3] Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.

[4] Hereford City Council - Mayors Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[MI-5] Monumental Inscriptions in the Cathedral Church of Hereford

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