British peer and politician
Edward Boscawen, 1st Earl of Falmouth, 4th Viscount Falmouth
Edward Boscawen, 1st Earl of Falmouth (10 May 1787 – 29 December 1841), known as the Viscount Falmouth between 1808 and 1821, was a British peer and politician.
Background
Falmouth was the son of
George Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth and Elizabeth Anne, the only daughter of John Crewe, of Cheshire.
[1] He was educated at
Eton College and served briefly as an
Ensign in the
Coldstream Guards .
[2]
Career
In the
General Election of 1807 , Falmouth was elected
Member of Parliament for
Truro , standing as a
Tory
[3] on the day before his 20th birthday.
[4] On the death of his father the following year, he resigned both his
seat and his
commission and took up his place in the
House of Lords . In 1821, on the coronation of
George IV , he was created Earl of Falmouth .
As a member of the
Ultra-Tory faction, he was vehemently opposed to
parliamentary reform and
Catholic emancipation .
[2] In 1829 he acted as second to
Lord Winchilsea in his famous
duel with the
Duke of Wellington over the latter issue. He always insisted that he persuaded Winchelsea to fire into the air, and he had certainly prepared an apology, which Wellington accepted.
[5]
He was the last
Recorder of
Truro and the author of a pamphlet on the subject of
stannary courts .
[6]
Family
Anne Frances Bankes (1789–1864), Countess of Falmouth by
Thomas Lawrence (Kingston Lacy)
Tregothnan House
Lord Falmouth was married to Anne Frances Bankes (1790–1864), elder daughter of
Henry Bankes of
Kingston Lacy estate on 27 August 1810. She was from the old and prominent
Bankes family , her brother were "the exiled"
William John Bankes and
George Bankes .
He died at
Tregothnan in December 1841, aged 54, and was succeeded by his only son,
George .
[1]
Lady Falmouth lived at 3 Whitehall Gardens, Westminster, until her death in 1864.
[7] A philanthropist, she endowed almshouses at
Brimpton
[8] and a village school at
Woolhampton ,
[9] both in Berkshire.
References
^
a
b Courtney, William Prideaux (1886).
"Boscawen, Edward" . In
Stephen, Leslie (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 419–420.
^
a
b "Boscawen, Edward, first earl of Falmouth".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/2932 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
^ Thorne, R. G. (2006).
"Boscawen, Hon. Edward (1787-1841)" . In Thorne, R. (ed.).
The History of Parliament : the House of Commons 1790-1820 . London: Haynes.
ISBN
9780436521010 .
^ Steinmetz, Andrew (1868).
The Romance of Duelling . London: Chapman and Hall. pp. 336–343.
^ Boscawen, Edward (1836).
A Letter on the subject of re-establishing and extending the Stannary Courts of the Dutchy of Cornwall . London: J. B. Nicholls & Son.
^ Cox, Montagu H; Norman, Philip (eds.).
"No. 3 Whitehall Gardens Pages 204-207 Survey of London: Volume 13, St Margaret, Westminster, Part II: Whitehall I. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1930" . British History Online . Retrieved 7 August 2020 .
^ Page, William.
"Parishes; Brimpton.Pages 51-55 A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1924" . British History Online . Retrieved 7 August 2020 .
^ Ditchfield, P H.
"Parishes: Woolhampton Pages 444-446 A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1923" . British History Online . Retrieved 7 August 2020 .
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