Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (11 July 1835 – 17 December 1886)
was an
English Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
politician.
He was elected to the
House of Commons at the
1859 general election as a
member of parliament (MP) for
West Kent
Kent is a traditional county in South East England with long-established human occupation.
Prehistoric Kent
Kent has been occupied since the Lower Palaeolithic as finds from the quarries at Fordwich and Swanscombe attest. The Swanscombe skul ...
.
The seat had previously been held by his father, the
8th Baronet from 1838 until his death in 1857, but that 9th Baronet's tenure was shorter since he did not defend his seat at the
next general election, 1865.
He was appointed
Sheriff of Kent
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for 1870.
Fifteen years later, Filmer returned to
Parliament when he was elected at the
1880 general election as MP for
Mid Kent.
[Craig, op. cit., page 406] However he
resigned his seat in 1884, by taking the
Chiltern Hundreds.
Sir Edmund was married to
Mary Georgina Filmer
Lady Mary Georgina Filmer (née Cecil, 4 April 1838 – 17 March 1903) was an early proponent of the art of photographic collage.
A Victorian socialite, Lady Filmer produced several albums consisting of watercolour scenes decorated with pho ...
(née Cecil, 1838–1903), an early proponent of
photomontage.
Roberta Smith, "The Pastime of Victorian Cutups", ''The New York Times'', 4 February 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
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1835 births
1886 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1859–1865
UK MPs 1880–1885
High Sheriffs of Kent
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