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 went then to Trinity College, Cambridge.[3][4] In 1812, he began his Grand Tour and returned a year later.[4]
Rumbold was elected as 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 in the following year, he stood successfully 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 by her three sons.[4] He died at Brighton, aged 68 and was buried at Preston Candover in Hampshire.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Great Yarmouth". Retrieved 23 October 2009.
- ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. p. 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. vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 60. ISBN 0-436-52101-6.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ "ThePeerage - Charles Edmund Rumbold". Retrieved 16 February 2009.
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