Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison, 2nd Baronet (2 January 1821, Brighton – 11 July 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician and the

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for the borough of Eye. Sir-Edward-Clarence-Kerrison-2nd-Bt

Biography

Kerrison was the eldest son of General

Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, (30 July 1776 – 9 March 1853) was a British Army officer and politician. Kerrison was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 7th Light Dragoons, saw service during the Peninsular War and commanded his regim ...

and his wife Mary Martha Ellice. He was born at Wick House, 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

for the borough of Eye and as

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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.By taking becoming a Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds He joined the board of the Great Eastern Railway as a Deputy Chairman in 1866. 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kerrison, Edward, 2nd Baronet 1821 births 1886 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 People from Brighton People from Brome, Suffolk Directors of the Great Eastern Railway