Edwin Lascelles (MP)

Edwin Lascelles (1799 in Harewood – 25 April 1865 in Wighill Park, near Wetherby) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ripon from 1846 to 1857.[1]

Lascelles was a younger son of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.[2] He graduated B.C.L. from All Souls College, Oxford in 1826, and was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in the same year.[2] Returned MP for Ripon without a contest in January 1846, he was re-elected in 1852 and retired in 1857.

He died suddenly, of Apoplexy.[3]

References

  1. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 255. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  2. John Jones, The History and antiquities of Harewood, p. 298
  3. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1865, p. 801
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Berry Cusack Smith
Sir George Cockburn
Member of Parliament for Ripon
18461857
With: Sir George Cockburn to 1847
Sir James Graham 1847–1852
William Beckett from 1852
Succeeded by
John Greenwood
John Ashley Warre


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