Edward Loveden Loveden
Edward Loveden Loveden FRS (ca. 1749/1751–1822) was an English Member of Parliament (MP), sometimes described as a Whig but often not voting with that party.
Life
The date of birth of Edward Loveden Loveden, whose birthname was Edward Loveden Townsend, is uncertain. He is variously stated to have been born in 1749, 1750 and 1751.[1][2] His father was Thomas Townsend, from Cirencester in Gloucestershire, and his mother, Jane, was from Buscot, then in Berkshire. He attended Winchester College for three years up to 1765 and entered Trinity College, Oxford in 1767,[1] by which time his father had died.[3] He changed his name to Edward Loveden Loveden by royal license in 1772. The change was imposed on him by a relative – Edward Loveden, variously stated as his uncle[2] or great-uncle[1] – as a condition of their bequest to him of the manor at Buscot.[2] He owned Buscot Park, near Faringdon in present-day Oxfordshire.[1]
Loveden entered the House of Commons from the Abingdon constituency in 1783 when he won a by-election caused by of the death of the sitting member, Henry Howorth. He sat then as an opponent of the Fox–North coalition and claimed to be a free agent, not tied to any political group.[3] In the same year, he joined the Thames Navigation Commission, of which he became particularly active from 1789.[4]
Loveden retained his seat in the 1784 general election and, despite some local opposition based on his parsimonious tendencies, again in 1790. In 1793, he was aligned with the "third party" of William Windham.[1] From that year, and coinciding with the end of his most active period as a Thames Commissioner,[4] he became a member of the Board of Agriculture.[2]
Loveden was forced out of the Abingdon seat in 1796 and lost the contest for one of the two Berkshire seats at that year's election. Between 1802 and 1812, he served as MP for Shaftesbury.[1]
Loveden was elected a
Family
Loveden was married three times, firstly in 1773 to Margaret, daughter of Lewis Pryse of
Loveden separated from Anne in 1808,
Loveden attempted to control his daughters, objecting without success to the marriage of Margaret to Samuel Wilson Warneford and then driving away the fiancé of Jane.[7] His son became known as Pryse Pryse and was also an MP, taking advantage of the inheritance of money and lands in Wales that had been brought into the family by his mother.[9]
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g Fisher (1986)
- ^ a b c d e f Oliver (2006), p. 98
- ^ a b Oliver (2006), p. 99
- ^ a b Oliver (2006), p. 101
- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
- ^ Thoyts, pp. 104, 128–9, 294.
- ^ a b Oliver (2006), p. 100
- ^ James (2012)
- ^ Thorne (1986)
Bibliography
- Fisher, David R. (1986), Thorne, R. (ed.), "LOVEDEN, Edward Loveden (?1751-1822), of Buscot Park, Berks.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, History of Parliament Online, retrieved 17 February 2019
- James, Douglas (2012), "Parliamentary Divorce, 1700–1857", Parliamentary History, 31 (2): 168–189,
- Oliver, Stuart (2006), "The desire to metabolise nature: Edward Loveden Loveden, William Vanderstegen, and the disciplining of the river Thames", in Heynen, Nik; Kaika, Maria; Swyngedouw, Erik (eds.), In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-13420-647-6
- Thorne, R. G. (1986), Thorne, R. (ed.), "PRYSE, Pryse (1774-1849), of Gogerddan, Card. and Buscot Park, Berks.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, History of Parliament Online, retrieved 17 February 2019
- Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select, ISBN 978-1-37645405-5.
Further reading
- Oxford Times
- Tucker, Joan (2012). Ferries of the Upper Thames. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-44562-007-7.
- Stone, Lawrence (1993). Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1857. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19820-254-7.
- Oliver, Stuart (June 2010). "Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605-1815". The Geographical Journal. 176 (2): 164–177. JSTOR 40835641.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Loveden Loveden
- "Old Canal, Buscot Wharf". National Trust. Retrieved 18 February 2019.