Edmund Dunch (or Dunche) (14 December 1657 Westminster - 31 May 1719 Little Wittenham) was Master of the Royal Household to Queen Anne and a British member of parliament. December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... Westminster is a district within the City of Westminster in London. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... Statistics Population: Location OS grid reference: SU565935 Administration Parish: Little Wittenham District: South Oxfordshire Shire county: Oxfordshire Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Oxfordshire Historic county: Berkshire Services Police force: Thames Valley Police Fire and rescue: Oxfordshire Ambulance: South Central Post office... The Master of the Household is the operational head of the below stairs elements of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. ... Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) followed Englands only joint monarchy to become Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702 after the passing of both William and Mary. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...

He was a British MP for Cricklade, Wiltshire (1701-1702 and 1705-1713), Boroughbridge, Yorkshire (1713-1715), and Wallingford, then Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) from 1715-1719. He held the royal title of Master of the Household from 1708-1712. He was also a member of the Kit-Kat Club, a dining and gathering point for Whig supporters. He also had a reputation as a gambler and bon-vivant. He is buried at Little Wittenham Church, near Wallingford, in Oxfordshire (then Berkshire), in the village where the family had been based for over 170 years. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Cricklade was a county constituency in the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ... Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... // Events Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. ... Year 1713 (MDCCXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Boroughbridge was a parliamentary borough in Yorkshire from 1553 until 1832, when it was abolished under the Great Reform Act. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 1713 (MDCCXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1715 (MDCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Wallingford was a constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Year 1715 (MDCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... The Master of the Household is the operational head of the below stairs elements of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. ... // Events March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya Kandahar conquered by Mir Wais In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague J... // Events Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. ... The Kit-Cat Club (sometimes Kit-Kat Club) was an early 18th century English club in London with strong political and literary associations, committed to the furtherance of Whig objectives. ... In politics, the term whig for political groupings has its origins in a term of abuse used by opponents of the Presbyterian Covenanters who marched from the south west of Scotland on Edinburgh in 1648 in what became known as the Whiggamore Raid, with the terms Whiggamore and Whig subsequently... Statistics Population: Location OS grid reference: SU565935 Administration Parish: Little Wittenham District: South Oxfordshire Shire county: Oxfordshire Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Oxfordshire Historic county: Berkshire Services Police force: Thames Valley Police Fire and rescue: Oxfordshire Ambulance: South Central Post office... Map sources for Wallingford at grid reference SU6089 Wallingford is a small town in Oxfordshire in southern England. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Many of Edmund's forebears had been parliamentarians, particularly representing Wallingford. William Dunch (1508-1597), auditor to the Mint for Henry VIII and Edward IV, represented Wallingford (1563), and was High Sheriff of Berkshire (1569-1570). It was William who bought the manor of Little Wittenham in 1552, which was the family seat. His son, Sir Edmund Dunch, represented Wallingford in 1571 and was High Sheriff of Berkshire (1586-1587). His son Sir William Dunch (1578-1611) represented Wallingford in 1603. He married Mary Cromwell in 1599, the daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell and aunt to Oliver Cromwell. It is believed that Mother Dunch's Buttocks, the variant name for the two rounded local hills Wittenham Clumps, is associated with her. William's brother Samuel (1592-1666) represented Wallingford in 1620. William's son, Edmund (1603-1678), was Governor of Wallingford Castle, and later became Baron Burnell of East Wittenham, though he lost this title at the Restoration (this being the only title conferred by the Protector and not confirmed by Charles II). He too represented Wallingford in 1627 and 1640, and was High Sheriff of Berkshire. Edward’s son Hungerford Dunch (1639-1680) was returned for Wallingford in 1660 but elected to serve for Cricklade. Hungerford's son was Edmund Dunch (1657-1719). Edmund, who had no sons, was the last Dunch to represent Wallingford. Edmund Dunch's daughter Arabella married Yorkshire politicion Edward Thompson (1697-1742) and his daughter Harriet married Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester. 1508 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see: 1597 (number). ... 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References

• Annells, P. (2006) The Berkshire Dunches.
• Byrne, R. H. (1848) The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland, John Olliver, London
• Ford, D. N. (2004) Royal Berkshire History: Edmund Dunch, Nash Ford Publishing, Wokingham
• Hedges, J.K. (1881) Wallingford History, Wm Clowes, London

External links

• Royal Berkshire History: Edmund Dunch
• Wallingford History Gateway