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Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

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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]

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,[4] Edward Kerrison married Mary Martha Ellice, a daughter of Alexander Ellice, a merchant who had made a fortune in the North American fur trade and 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. [1]
    Dalton, Charles (1904). The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. 65.
  2. [2]
    Journals of the House of Commons, Volume 68 p 12 1812-1813
  3. [3]
    T. Seccombe, R. Stearn (2004). "Kerrison, Sir Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15472. Retrieved 11 February 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. [4]
    parish register
  5. [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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