Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet

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Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet
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Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet

CB (20 July 1812 – 23 April 1886) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons
in two periods between 1847 and 1869.

Edwards was born at Pye Nest in Halifax, Yorkshire, and was the son of Henry Lees Edwards and Lea Priestley.

Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire and reached the rank of Colonel in the 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment Yeomanry Cavalry.[3]

In 1847 Edwards was elected

High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1872.[7] In 1875, he was appointed by the Freemasons as Provincial Grand Master of West Yorkshire.[2]

Edwards died in 1886 at Pye Nest at the age of 73.

Edwards married Maria Churchill Coster, daughter of Thomas Coster, on 19 April 1838. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Henry.[8]

References

  1. ^ Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of peerage, baronetage and knightage. 1914.
  2. ^ a b "Obituary". The Times. No. 31742. London. 24 April 1886. p. 5.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1276
  4. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
  5. ^ "No. 23143". The London Gazette. 24 July 1866. p. 4164.
  6. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
  7. ^ "No. 23704". The London Gazette. 8 February 1871. p. 473.
  8. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1276

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Halifax
18471852
With: Sir Charles Wood
Succeeded by
Francis Crossley
Sir Charles Wood
Preceded by
Edward Glover
William Denison
Christopher Sykes 1865–1868
Edmund Hegan Kennard
from 1868
Writ suspended
Constituency abolished 1870
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
of Pye Nest
1866–1886
Succeeded by
Henry Coster Lea Edwards