Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

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Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Bt, by William Salter

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,

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. 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
Succeeded by
Preceded by
William Bateman
and Earl Compton
Member of Parliament for Northampton
1818–1820
With: Earl Compton
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1824–1852
With: Sir Miles Nightingall to 1829
Philip Sidney 1829–31
William Burge 1831–32
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