Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath

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Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (Baptised 1 March 1590 – 31 March 1636), was born 27 Aug 1575 in Somerset to William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath and Elizabeth Russell. Edward was married twice first on 14 July 1623 to Dorothy St. John, daughter of Oliver St. John, 3rd Baron St. John of Bletso and Dorothy Read. They had five children. A year after Dorothy died he married a second time to Ann Lovet in 1633. Ann was the daughter of Sir Robert Lovet and Anne Saunders.

[edit] Children

by Dorothy St. John:

• Lady Anne Bourchier married James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex
• William Bourchier born 1624 married Sarah Coole. Their granddaughter, Sarah Bourchier moved to America and continued a long line of American Bourchier descendants.
• Lady Elizabeth Bourchier (1626 – 22 September 1670)
• John Bourchier, Baron FitzWarin (21 January 1630 – September, 1631)
• Lady Dorothy Bourchier (1631 – 1659)

[edit] References

• thepeerage.com Accessed December 9, 2007

Preceded by William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath

Earl of Bath 1623–1636

Succeeded by Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath