Alexander Pym

Alexander Pym (c. 1547 – 7 January 1585) was an English landowner.

Biography

Pym's family had been landowners in Brymore in Somerset since the thirteenth century. A lawyer, he was elected to Parliament for Taunton in November 1584, but died early the next year, leaving behind his infant son John. His widow remarried to Anthony Rous.[1]

References
  1. M. R. P., PYM, Alexander (c.1547-85), of Brymore, Som. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (1981).


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