Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison, 2nd Baronet (2 January 1821,

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– 11 July 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the borough of

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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 regimen ...

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

in 1821. He married Lady Caroline Margaret Fox-Strangways, daughter of

Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (21 February 1787 – 8 January 1858), styled Lord Stavordale from birth until 1802, was a British peer and Whig (British political faction), Whig polit ...

, on 23 July 1844, but had no children. He succeeded his father in 1852 as Member of Parliament for the borough of

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

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He joined the board of the

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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

. He died at Brome Hall,

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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