Background
Edwardes was the son of Francis Edwardes, Member of Parliament for Haverfordwest, and Lady Elizabeth Rich, only daughter and heiress of Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick.
Edwardes was the son of Francis Edwardes, Member of Parliament for Haverfordwest, and Lady Elizabeth Rich, only daughter and heiress of Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick.
The Edwardes family owned extensive lands in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. Kensington was elected to his father"s old seat of Haverfordwest in 1747, a seat he held until 1801, with a brief exception between 1784 and 1786. In 1776 he was created Baron Kensington in the Peerage of Ireland.
This was a revival of the barony held by the Earls of Warwick and Holland which had become extinct on the death of the eighth and last Earl in 1759.
Lord Kensington married Elizabeth Warren in 1762. Lady Kensington died in November 1814.
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