Edward Cazalet (9 November 1827 – 21 April 1883), was a British merchant and industrialist. Cazalet was born in Brighton on 9 November 1827, the youngest of seven children of Peter Clement Cazalet (1785–1859), merchant and Russian consul, and his wife, Olympia Cazalet (d. 1848). The family descended from

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s who fled France after the

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."Col. Victor A. Cazalet," ''New York Times'', obituary, July 6, 1943 On 15 March 1860, Cazalet married Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall (d. 1888), daughter and heir of William Marshall, doctor and Danish consul in Edinburgh. Their only child was William Marshall Cazalet, born 1865. In 1872, Cazalet purchased the estate of

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; he also owned Villa Liserb at Cimiez in the south of France, which was often visited by

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, who became godmother to his grandson,

Victor Cazalet Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, MC (27 December 1896 – 4 July 1943) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for nineteen years. He came from a prominent, wealthy English family. In his political career, he was a noted autho ...

, born 1896. Cazalet died of typhus at the Hôtel d'Angleterre, Constantinople, on 21 April 1883, and was survived by his wife. He was buried at St Giles's Church, Shipbourne, on 7 May 1883.

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