Laurence Whitaker (c. 1578 – 15 April 1654) of Turnham Green, Chiswick was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1653.
Whitaker was born in Somerset, the son of Laurence Whitaker. He matriculated from St John's College, Cambridge in around 1593 and was awarded BA in 1597 and MA in 1600. He was incorporated at Oxford University in 1603 and admitted at Middle Temple on 24 March 1614.
He died at the age of 76 and was buried at St Giles in the Fields.[1] He had married twice; firstly Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Egerton and secondly Dorothy, the daughter of Charles Hoskins of Holborn, Middlesex. He had no children and left his Turnham Green house and other assets to his second wife.[2]
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^ abc"Whitaker, Laurence (WHTR593L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ ab"Whitaker, Laurence (c.1578-1654), of Drury Lane, Westminster and Turnham Green, Chiswick, Mdx". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
^ abWillis, 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.
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