Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet (20 July 1812 – 23 April 1886) was an English

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politician who sat in the

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in two periods between 1847 and 1869. Edwards was born at Pye Nest in Halifax, Yorkshire, and was the son of Henry Lees Edwards and Lea Priestley. He was J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire and reached the rank of Colonel in the 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment Yeomanry Cavalry. In 1847 Edwards was elected

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(MP) for Halifax and held the seat until 1852. In 1857 he was elected MP for

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and was re-elected in subsequent elections. He was created a

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of Pye Nest on 3 August 1866. After the 1868 general election the election was declared void on 11 Mar 1869. No writ was issued to replace the members and the constituency was disenfranchised by an Act which received Royal assent on 4 July 1870. Edwards was

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in 1872. In 1875, he was appointed by the Freemasons as

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of West Yorkshire. Edwards died in 1886 at Pye Nest at the age of 73. Edwards married Maria Churchill Coster, daughter of Thomas Coster, on 19 April 1838. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Henry.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1276

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