Charles Newdigate Newdegate
Charles Newdigate Newdegate (14 July 1816 – 9 April 1887) was a British Conservative politician.[1] In Hansard the spelling is Newdegate.
Early life
He was the only son of Charles Parker Newdigate Newdegate[2] of Harefield Park, Uxbridge, Middlesex, and his wife, Maria Boucherett, of Lincolnshire. He was educated at Eton College, King's College London, and Christ Church, Oxford.[1] He became a large landowner at a young age: in 1833 he inherited the Harefield Estate on his father's death, and two years later his uncle died leaving him Arbury Hall near Nuneaton, Warwickshire.[1]
Member of parliament
In 1843 Newdegate was elected to the
Newdegate was also elected as a member of the
He died at Arbury Hall in April 1887, and was buried in Harefield Church, a building which he had personally spent much money restoring.[1][4]
References
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- ^ Charles Parker was the grandson of Milliscent Newdigate, first cousin of Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet. Parker, who had assumed the additional surname of Newdigate, inherited the Warwickshire estates on the Baronet's death in 1806, at the same time adding a third surname of Newdegate. Burke, John (1836). A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank: but uninvested with heritable honours, Volume 2. London: Colbourn. p. 701. "Harefield: Manors". A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington. British History Online. 1962. pp. 240–246. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
- ^ The National Archives (UK); Document Reference: MH 13/137, folios 64-65
- ^ "Harefield: Church". A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington. British History Online. 1962. pp. 252–256. Retrieved 27 April 2010.