Sir Edward Kerrison
(1821-1886)
28 February 1861

Volume 2, page 247, sitting number 2280.

The following is Sir Edward's obituary, which appeared in The Times on Tuesday, 13 July 1886:

'We have to record the death of Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison, of Oakley Park, Suffolk, which occurred on Sunday night at his residence, Brome Hall, near Scole. He was the only son of the late General Sir Edward Kerrison, colonel of the 14th Dragoons, for many years M.P. successively for Shaftesbury, Northampton, and Eye. His mother was Mary, daughter of Mr Alexander Ellice, of Pittencrieff, Fifeshire, and he was born at Wick, near Brighton, in January 1821. Sir Edward, who succeeded his father as second baronet in 1853, was a magistrate for Norfolk and Suffolk, and also a deputy-lieutenant for the latter county. In 1843 he was appointed a lieutenant in the Suffolk Borderers' Yeomanry, and afterwards became a captain in the 10th Suffolk Rifle Volunteers. The late baronet, who was a staunch Conservative, sat in the House of Commons as member for Eye from 1852 to 1866, and for East Suffolk from the latter date till February in the following year, when he resigned. During the last few years, failing health had compelled him to retire from public life. Sir Edward Kerrison married, in 1844, Lady Caroline Margaret Fox-Strangeways, daughter of Sir Henry, third Earl of Ilchester. As he leaves no issue, the baronetcy, which was created in 1821, now becomes extinct. One of the late baronet's sisters is the Dowager Lady Henniker, another is Lady Bateman, and another (who is deceased) was the Countess Stanhope.'

He left an estate valued at £75,436.

[From an album assembled by Edmund Baskerville-Mynors, Rector of Ashley in Wiltshire.]