Sir Samuel Owfield was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  at various times between 1624 and 1644.

Owfield was the son of Roger Owfield, Fishmonger, of Billiter Lane, London and his wife Thomasine More, daughter of John More, merchant, of Ipswich. Owfield had acquired the manor of Upper Gatton in Surrey by 1624. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Gatton

Gatton (UK Parliament constituency)

Gatton was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1450 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act...

. He was re-elected MP for Gatton as Sir Samuel Owfield in 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. In 1638 he inherited from his mother estates in Lincolnshire.

In April 1640, Owfield was re-elected MP for Gatton in the Short Parliament

Short Parliament

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. He was re-elected for the Long Parliament

Long Parliament

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 in November 1640, and sat until his death in 1644.

Owfield married Katherine Smith, daughter of William Smith of London. His son William

William Owfield

William Owfield was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1645.Owfield was the eldest son of Sir Samuel Owfield, of Upper Gatton, Surrey and Covent Garden, and his wife Katherine Smith, daughter of William Smith, Mercer, of Thames Street, London.His father was a...

was also an MP.