Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (14 June 1809 – 8 January 1857)[1] was an English Conservative Party politician.
Life[edit]
He was the son of Edmund Filmer, a younger son of Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet, and his wife Emelia Skene, daughter of George Skene.[2] He matriculated in 1827 at Oriel College, Oxford.[3]
Filmer was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in March 1838 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kent,[4] having unsuccessfully contested the same constituency at the 1837 general election. He held the seat until his death in 1857, aged 47.[1] His son the 9th Baronet was elected as MP for West Kent in 1859.[4]
In 1850 Sir Edmund built Leagrave Hall on land close to Luton in Bedfordshire which had been purchased in 1771 by Sir Beversham Filmer.[5]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1839. p. 407.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [First published 1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 406. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ "Moorlands Independent School and Nursery, Luton, Bedfordshire :: Key Information". Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
- ^ Burke's Peerage. 1915.
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