Andrew Arcedeckne (8 January 1780 – 8 February 1849) was a British landowner and MP. He was the eldest son of Jamaica plantation owner

Chaloner Arcedeckne Chaloner Arcedeckne ( – 20 December 1809), MP was an English politician and a Jamaican slave-holder and landowner during British rule. Biography He descended from the Arcedecknes, an Anglo-Irish family who arrived in Suffolk and made it their ...

of Cockfield Hall and Glevering Hall, Suffolk and educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...

and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his father in 1809 and made Glevering Hall his home. He was appointed

High Sheriff of Suffolk This is a list of Sheriffs and High Sheriffs of Suffolk. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown and is appointed annually (in March) by the Crown. The Sheriff was originally the principal law enforcement officer in the county a ...

for 1819–1820 and was

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for the

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Dunwich Dunwich is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around north-east of London, south of Southwold and north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast. In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was ...

from 1826 to 1831. He owned two plantations in St Thomas in the East,

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

, Golden Grove and Bachelor's Hall Pen. He married his cousin Ann Harriet, the daughter of Francis Love Beckford of Basing Park.

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* 1780 births 1849 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 High Sheriffs of Suffolk People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford {{England-UK-MP-stub