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About Edward Phelips
Sir Edward Phelips was an English lawyer and politician, the Speaker of the English House of Commons from 1604 until 1611, and subsequently Master of the Rolls from 1611 until his death in 1614. He was an elected MP from 1584, and in 1588, following a successful career as a lawyer, he commissioned Montacute House to be built as a country house for himself and his family on the family estate in Somerset. He was knighted in 1603 and one of his major roles was as the opening prosecutor during the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters.
Everything about Edward Phelips →- Occupation
- judge, politician
- Position held
- Speaker of the House of Commons, Master of the Rolls, Justice of the Common Pleas, Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England
- Citizenship
- England
- Born
- 1550
- Died
- September 11, 1614