Sir Edward Rossiter (1 January 1618 – 9 January 1669) was an English landowner, soldier and politician from Lincolnshire. He fought with the Parliamentarian army in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and sat as an MP at various times between 1646 and 1660. When the First English Civil War began in August 1642, Rossiter joined the Eastern Association army, then transferred to the New Model Army in April 1645. He also played a prominent role in the civil administration of the East Midlands, and was nominated MP for Grimsby in March 1646. From February to July 1647, he commanded the garrison of Holdenby House, where Charles I was being held. He was dismissed by the Army Council, who viewed him as an ally of their opponents in Parliament. Restored to the army during the 1648 Second English Civil War, he suppressed Royalist revolts in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. One of the MPs excluded from the Commons by Pride's Purge in December 1648, Rossiter opposed the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, unlike his grandfather Sir John Bourchier. During The Protectorate, he was elected for Lincolnshire in 1654, 1656 and 1659, but prevented from taking his seat as a suspected Royalist. In return for supporting the Stuart Restoration, he was knighted in May 1660 and appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire. However, he retired from politics and died in January 1669. Personal details Edward Rossiter was born on 1 January 1618, second son of Richard (died before 1620) and Elizabeth Rossiter of Somerby by Bigby, Lincolnshire. He had two brothers, Richard (1616-1636) and John (before 1620-after 1634). His mother was a daughter of Sir John Bourchier (1595-1660), a devout Puritan who acted as a judge at the trial of Charles I in 1649. Following the 1660 Stuart Restoration, he escaped execution as a regicide by dying of illness while awaiting trial. Rossiter became heir to Somerby when his elder brother Richard died in 1636, and in 1646 married Jane Samwell (1615-before 1660); they had two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth (ca 1650 to 1706). He re-married in 1660, this time to Arabella Holles, daughter of John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare and niece of Denzil Holles, one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in January 1642 was a key point on the road to civil war. At his death in 1669 they had five children still living, John, Edward, Horatio,