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 byRichard Bateman-Robsonand Hudson Gurney Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury 1813–1818 With: Charles Wetherell Succeeded byJohn Morrittand Henry Shepherd Preceded byWilliam Batemanand Earl Compton Member of Parliament for Northampton 1818–1820 With: Earl Compton Succeeded bySir George Robinson, Btand William Maberly Preceded bySir Robert Giffordand Sir Miles Nightingall Member of Parliament for Eye 1824–1852 With: Sir Miles Nightingall to 1829Philip Sidney 1829–31William Burge 1831–32(one member from 1832) Succeeded bySir Edward Kerrison, Bt Baronetage of the United Kingdom New creation Baronet(of Hosne and Brome, Co. Suffolk) 1821–1853 Succeeded byEdward Kerrison


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