Edward Darcy

Abt 1543 - 1612  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Edward Darcy  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1543	of Dartford, Kent, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Oct 1612	Dartford, Kent, England   [3, 9, 10, 11]
  Burial	St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England   [3, 12]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  1. Henry Darcy ,   b. of Brimham, Yorkshire, England ▻ Katherine Tyrwhit   2. Thomas Darcy   d. 6 Nov 1605 ▻ Elizabeth Conyers + 3. Edward Darcy ,   b. Abt 1543, of Dartford, Kent, England d. 28 Oct 1612, Dartford, Kent, England  (Age ~ 69 years) ▻ Elizabeth Astley
  Person ID	I813	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Arthur Darcy,   b. of Brimham, Yorkshire, England d. 3 Apr 1561
  Mother	Mary Carew   bur. St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England
  Family ID	F16470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Astley
  Children	+ 1. Robert Darcy,   b. of Dartford, Kent, England d. Bef 1632 + 2. Isabella Darcy,   b. Abt 1600   d. Between 29 May 1668 and 4 Aug 1669 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Family ID	F16443	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Edward Darcy was Groom of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I, 1583-1603. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1561, and was admitted at the Inner Temple in Nov 1561. Special ambassador to Francis, Duke of Anjou and William of Orange in 1583. Burgess (M.P.) for Truro, Cornwall, in 1584; justice of the peace in Kent from 1604 to his death. His lifelong cupidity appears to have been notable even by the standards of Elizabethan court society. From his entry in the History of Parliament: "In 1594 the attorney-general protested at the nomination of one Wiseman to the post of clerk of the outlawries, after Darcy had virtually put up the office for auction, and in 1600 the widow of Edward Denny petitioned against Darcy's attempt to obtain part of the proceeds of the sale of her late husband's office. He had little need, she wrote, 'to suck this small portion of her Majesty's favour from the hungry mouths of my children'. [...] His patent for searching and sealing leather, which he was granted in 1592 (or 1593), led him to commit 'such exactions and outrages as disquieted all England', and his privileges were first reduced (in 1595) and then (before May 1598) replaced by a new patent for the monopoly of importing and manufacturing playing cards." Sometime between then and 1602, Darcy sued Thomas Allin (also spelled Allain, Allein, Allen, etc.), haberdasher of London, for infringing on his playing-card patent. In what came to be regarded as a landmark case in English law, known to history as the "Case of Monopolies," the King's Bench ultimately ruled against Darcy, declaring his patent void because monopolies are ultimately damaging to the public good. The arguments set forth in the verdict were later much quoted in the various deliberations leading to the creation of modern antitrust and competition law. His loss in court can't have broken his stride too badly; he was knighted the next year, on 23 Apr 1603, and retired to live the comfortable life of a wealthy man. —— Edward Darcy (1543-1612) = Elizabeth Astley Robert Darcy = Grace Reddish Edward Darcy = Elizabeth Stanhope [1] Katherine Darcy (d. 1713) = Erasmus Phillips (d. 1697) [2] [3] Elizabeth Phillips (b. abt 1664) = John Shorter [4] Catherine Shorter (1682-1737) = Robert Walpole (1676-1745) [5] Horace Walpole (1717-1797) [1] Daughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. [2] Erasmus Phillips and Katherine Darcy were parents of Sir John Phillips of Pembrokeshire, a leading Welsh social and religious reformer. [3] Through his mother, Elizabeth Dryden, Erasmus Phillips was a first cousin of the poet John Dryden, a second cousin once removed to Jonathan Swift, and a first cousin once removed to Mrs. Ann Marbury Hutchinson, the antinomian religious reformer who was famously cast out of the early Massachusetts Bay colony. [4] John Shorter was a son of John Shorter (1625-1688), Lord Mayor of London. [5] Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been the first Prime Minister of England in the modern sense.

  
  

• Sources

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