Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere, 3rd Baronet (8 December 1826 – 18 December 1894) was a British
Conservative Party
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons between 1866 and 1895. He was a pioneer of the
Red Cross
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.
Lechmere was the son of Sir Edmund Hungerford Lechmere, 2nd Baronet of
Hanley Castle
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,
Worcestershire
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and his wife Maria Clara Murray, daughter of Hon. David Murray, brother of
Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank
Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank (24 April 1747 – 24 September 1820) was a Scottish peer.
Background
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. He was educated at
Charterhouse School
(God having given, I gave)
, established =
, closed =
, type = Public school Independent day and boarding school
, religion = Church of England
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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. In 1852 he inherited the
baronetcy on the death of his father. He was a senior partner in the Worcester Old Bank. In 1862 he was
High Sheriff of Worcestershire.
[Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886]
/ref> Through his son, Anthony Hungerford Lechmere1 (1868-1954), he was the father-in-law of Cecily Mary Bridges (1884-1964) whose first husband was William George Lupton (1871 - 1911) of Leeds
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. Cecily and her second husband - Anthony Hungerford Lechmere - were the parents of Sir Reginald Anthony Hungerford Lechmere, 7th Baronet (1920-2010).[Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886]
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In March 1866 Lechmere was elected at a by-election as one of the two Members of Parliament
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(MPs) for Tewkesbury
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,
but when the borough's representation was reduced to one seat at the 1868 general election, he was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate William Edwin Price
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Price was the son of William Philip Price, M.P. for Gloucester and his wife Frances Ann Chadbo ...
. He contested Tewkesbury again in 1874
Events
January–March
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* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
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, without success, but in July 1876 he was elected at a by-election as MP for Western Worcestershire. After the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, he was elected at the 1885 general election as MP for Bewdley. He held the seat until the 1892 general election, when he was elected as MP for Evesham
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. He held that seat until his death.
Lechmere gave an annual prize for history at the Oxford Military College in Cowley and Oxford
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Oxfordshire
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from 1876 to 1896.
Lechmere and his wife were among the founders of Venerable Order of St John. They had travelled several times to Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
and were involved in the establishment of The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital.
Lechmere married Louisa Katherine Haigh (1837–1904), only daughter and heiress of John or Joseph Haigh of Whitwell Hall at York, on 30 September 1858.[ Her father, the son of a wealthy textile merchant with origins in ]Golcar
Golcar (pronounced 'Go Car' or 'Golker') is a village on a hillside crest above the Colne Valley in West Yorkshire, England, west of Huddersfield, and just north of the River Colne and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
The 2021 population censu ...
, was born at Spring Grove, Huddersfield in 180
(See her
for Haigh's will.)
References
the Peerage.com
External links
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1826 births
1894 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
People educated at Charterhouse School
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
High Sheriffs of Worcestershire