Simon Every

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Sir Simon Every, 1st Baronet (1603–1647) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He was a supporter of the Royalist cause in the English Civil War, and the first of the Every Baronets.

Every was born at Chardstock (then in Dorset, located in Devon since 1896) to John Every of Wycroft Castle, and his wife Elizabeth Lambert.William Betham, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_iPjUAAAAMAAJ/page/n272 The Baronetage of England]Collins, Arthur. [https://books.google.com/books?id=IkhAAAAAYAAJ&q=every+AND+wicroft The Peerage of England], 1741 He married Anne Leigh, daughter of Sir Henry Leigh of Egginton, and after marriage took Egginton Hall as his seat. He was elected Member of Parliament for Leicester for the Short Parliament in April 1640,{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}} and created a baronet, of Egginton in the County of Derby in the Baronetage of England on 26 May 1641. He suffered for his support of the King during the Civil War and his estates were compounded, along with those of his cousins Worthington and John Brice of Dinnington.St. George, Henry. [https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun00stge The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the year 1623]. London, 1876Somerset County Council. [http://www.jbending.org.uk/bappb.htm Letter from County Archivist]. 27 July 1988