Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, GCH, KCB (30 July 1776 – 9 March 1853) was a British Army officer and politician.

Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Bt, by William Salter

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]

Issue

Edward Kerrison married Mary Martha Ellice, at St George Hanover Square, London, on 20 Oct 1810 [parish register]. She was a daughter of the late Alexander Ellice, a merchant who had made a fortune in the Canada fur trade, and a sister of Edward Ellice, also a merchant trading to Canada, who served in Earl Grey's administration. Their son Edward Clarence succeeded to the baronetcy on his death while their daughters were as follows:[4]

Anna, who married John, Lord Henniker in 1836.
Emily-Harriet, who married Philip, Earl Stanhope in 1834.
Agnes-Burrell, who married William, Lord Bateman on 13 May 1854.

Notes

Dalton, Charles (1904). The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. 65.
Journals of the House of Commons, Volume 68 p 12 1812-1813
T. Seccombe, R. Stearn. "Kerrison, Sir Edward". ODNB. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
Burke, Bernard (1869). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison. p. 636.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Edward Kerrison

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Bateman-Robson and Hudson Gurney	Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury 1813–1818 With: Charles Wetherell	Succeeded by John Morritt and Henry Shepherd
Preceded by William Bateman and Earl Compton	Member of Parliament for Northampton 1818–1820 With: Earl Compton	Succeeded by Sir George Robinson, Bt and William Maberly
Preceded by Sir Robert Gifford and Sir Miles Nightingall	Member of Parliament for Eye 1824–1852 With: Sir Miles Nightingall to 1829 Philip Sidney 1829–31 William Burge 1831–32 (one member from 1832)	Succeeded by Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Hosne and Brome, Co. Suffolk) 1821–1853	Succeeded by Edward Kerrison

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[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] T. Seccombe, R. Stearn. "Kerrison, Sir Edward". ODNB. Retrieved 11 February 2010.

[Burke-4] Burke, Bernard (1869). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison. p. 636.