Background
He was the eldest son of the courtier Edward Lewknor of Kingston Buci, Sussex who died in the Tower of London awaiting execution for conspiracy.
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Edward Lewknor
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He was educated at Street Johns College, Cambridge, graduating in 1561 and was a fellow of the college from 1561 to 1563.
Career
He entered the Middle Temple in 1562 to study law. He settled in Suffolk at Denham Hall, which he had obtained by marriage. In 1572 he was elected Member of Parliament for New Shoreham, near where his family lived.
He was then elected four times for Maldon in 1584, 1586, 1589 and 1593.
After a term as Member of Parliament for Newport, Cornwall in 1598 he returned for one final term as Member of Parliament for Maldon in 1604, after having been knighted in 1603. He died of smallpox in 1605 during his term of office.
