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Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Bt, by William Salter

General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, GCH, KCB (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 regiment at the Battle of Waterloo. [1]

Along with Charles Wetherell, he petitioned parliament over electoral malpractice in the parliamentary elections for Shaftesbury, Dorset. [2]

Kerrison was the only son of Matthias Kerrison (1742–1827), who was a prosperous merchant and property investor, and his wife, Mary née Barnes. He was born at his father's property, Hoxne Hall, near Bungay, Suffolk, on 30 July 1776. [3]

Marriage and issue

Monument in Hoxne Church to Agnes-Burrell Kerrison (Lady Bateman), youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edward Kerrison and wife of William Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman, who was "the last surviving member of her branch of the Kerrison family"

At St George's Church, Hanover Square, London, on 20 Oct 1810, [4] Edward Kerrison married Mary Martha Ellice, a daughter of Alexander Ellice, a merchant who had made a fortune in the North American fur trade and transatlantic slave trade. Thus he had as a brother-in-law Edward Ellice, merchant and politician in Earl Grey's government. He had the following issue: [5]

Notes

  1. ^ Dalton, Charles (1904). The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. p.  65.
  2. ^ Journals of the House of Commons, Volume 68 p 12 1812-1813
  3. ^ T. Seccombe, R. Stearn (2004). "Kerrison, Sir Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/15472. Retrieved 11 February 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ parish register
  5. ^ Burke, Bernard (1869). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison. p. 636.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury
1813–1818
With: Charles Wetherell
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Northampton
1818–1820
With: Earl Compton
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Eye
1824–1852
With: Sir Miles Nightingall to 1829
Philip Sidney 1829–31
William Burge 1831–32
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Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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