Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (11 July 1835 – 17 December 1886) was an English Conservative Party politician. He was elected to the

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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 Recent excavations and radiometric dating at a Lower Palaeolithic site at the West Gravel Pit, Fordwich, near Canterbury confirmed the ...

. 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

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for 1870. Fifteen years later, Filmer returned to

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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

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. Sir Edmund was married to Mary Georgina Filmer (née Cecil, 1838–1903), an early proponent of

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.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 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1830s-stub