Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet (21 April 1749 – 10 June 1833) was a British baronet and politician.

Life

Born Edmund Bunney, he was the son of Joseph Bunney and Mary Cradock in Freathby,

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. He married in 1777, Anne, the daughter of Joseph Hurlock, Governor of Bencoolen and one of the Directors of the East India Company. Her mother was Anne, daughter of Sir John Hartopp, last of the Hartopp baronets. Upon his marriage, Edmund Bunney changed his name to Cradock-Hartopp, as required by the wills of his maternal uncle Joseph Cradock and his wife's maternal grandfather. He was

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for 1781 and Member of Parliament for

between 1798 and 1806. In 1792 he acquired Four Oaks Hall,

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, the town of which he was briefly Warden in 1823. He was awarded the Cradock-Hartopp baronetcy in 1796. He died in Bristol in 1833 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son Edmund.

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cradock-Hartopp, Edmund 1749 births Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Leicestershire British MPs 1796–1800 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Leicestershire UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 High sheriffs of Leicestershire 1833 deaths