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Sir Edward Kerrison, 2nd Baronet
British politician

Sir Edward Kerrison, 2nd Baronet

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British politician
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Place of birth
Brighton
Place of death
Scole
Age
65 years
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Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison, 2nd Baronet (2 January 1821 – 11 July 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the borough of Eye.

Biography

Kerrison was the eldest son of General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Martha Ellice. He was born at The Wick, Brighton in 1821.

He married Lady Caroline Margaret Fox-Strangways, daughter of Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, on 23 July 1844, but had no children.

He succeeded his father in 1852 as Member of Parliament for the borough of Eye and as baronet the following year. He represented Eye until 1866 when he resigned to successfully stand as the Conservative candidate in a by election in East Suffolk, although he resigned the next year.

Described as a "Great friend of the agricultural laborers", he also took part in the building of a branch railway to Eye. He died at Brome Hall, Suffolk in 1886, and the baronetcy became extinct.

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