Edmund Waller ( 1606 - 1687 )

Birth: Stocks Place Manor House, Coleshill, Hertfordshire, England, Europe (3 March 1606) Baptism: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, Europe (9 March 1606) Death: St James's Street, Westminster, London, England, Europe (21 October 1687) Burial: Parish church of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, Europe Occupation: Politician Poet Education: Mr Dobson's School at High Wycombe; Eton College; King's College, Cambridge (matriculated 1621); Lincoln's Inn (admitted 1622) Career: MP for Ilchester (1624), for Chipping Wycombe (1626), for Amersham (1628, 1640), for St Ives (1640-1643), for Hastings (1660), and for Saltash (1685); conducted the impeachment of Sir Francis Crawley (1641); opposed the raising of troops by Parliament (1642); leader in 'Waller's plot' to seize London for Charles I; imprisoned in the Tower of London (1643-1644); sold his estate to save himself from hanging; in exile in Paris (1644-1651); pardoned and returned to England (1651); Commissioner for Trade (1655-1657, 1660-1668); Commissioner for Plantations (1660-1674) Commissioner for Corporations (1662-1663); Commissioner for Assessment for Buckinghamshire (1663-1674, 1679-1680), for Middlesex (1664-1669), and for Westminster (1673-1679); Commissioner for Accounts, Ireland (1668) Membership: Original Fellow Election Date: 20/05/1663 Committee appointments include: Committee of Agriculture [Georgical Committee] Other RSActivity: While Waller was never fully expelled from the Society, his name was placed on multiple lists to collect years' worth of arrears.