Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison, 2nd Baronet (2 January 1821 – 11 July 1886) was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

Kerrison was the eldest son of General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, GCH, KCB was a British Army officer and politician.Kerrison was a Lieutenant-Colenel in the Seventh Light Dragoons when he, with Charles Wetherell petitioned parliament over electoral malpractice in the parliamentary elections for Shafstubry...

 and his wife Mary Martha Ellice. He was born at The Wick, Brighton

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 in 1821.

He married Lady Caroline Margaret Fox-Strangways, daughter of Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester

Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester

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, on 23 July 1844, but had no children.

He succeeded his father in 1852 as Member of Parliament

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 for the borough of Eye

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 and as baronet

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 the following year. He represented Eye until 1866, when he was returned for East Suffolk, but resigned from Parliament the following year by taking the Manor of Northstead

Manor of Northstead

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.

Described as a "Great friend of the agricultural laborers", he also took part in the building of a branch railway to Eye. He died at Brome Hall, Scole

Scole

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, Norfolk

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in 1886, and the baronetcy became extinct.