Charles Rumbold

Charles Edmund Rumbold (11 August 1788 – 31 May 1857)^[1] was a British Whig politician.

He was the fifth son of Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Joanna Law, daughter of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle.^[2] Rumbold was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and then went to Trinity College, Cambridge.^[3]^[4] In 1812, he began his Grand Tour and returned a year later.^[4]

Rumbold was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth in 1818, a seat he held until 1835.^[1] In the general election of 1837 he returned to the House of Commons and sat for the constituency again until 1847.^[1] In a by-election the following year, he was elected a third time for Great Yarmouth and represented it until his death in 1857.^[1]

In 1834, he married Harriet, daughter of John Gardner, and had three sons with her.^[4] He died at Brighton, at the age of 68, and was buried at Preston Candover in Hampshire.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Great Yarmouth". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. pp. 557.
^ "Rumbold, Charles Edmund (RMLT808CE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ ^a ^b ^c Thorne, R. G. (1986). The House of Commons, 1790-1820. Vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 60. ISBN 0-436-52101-6.
^ "ThePeerage - Charles Edmund Rumbold". Retrieved 16 February 2009.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Rumbold

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Loftus Edmund Knowles Lacon	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1818–1835 With: Thomas Anson 1818–1819 Hon. George Anson 1819–1835	Succeeded by Thomas Baring Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Preceded by Thomas Baring Winthrop Mackworth Praed	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1837–1847 With: William Wilshere	Succeeded by Lord Arthur Lennox Octavius Coope
Preceded by Lord Arthur Lennox Octavius Coope	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1848–1857 With: Joseph Sandars 1848–1852 Sir Edmund Lacon 1852–1857	Succeeded by William Torrens McCullagh Edward Watkin

[Rayment-1] "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Great Yarmouth". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[2] Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. pp. 557.

[3] "Rumbold, Charles Edmund (RMLT808CE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[Thorne-4] Thorne, R. G. (1986). The House of Commons, 1790-1820. Vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 60. ISBN 0-436-52101-6.

[5] "ThePeerage - Charles Edmund Rumbold". Retrieved 16 February 2009.

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