Colonel Henry Cartwright, MP
(1814-1890)
18 May 1861

Volume 3, page 260, sitting number 3721.

The seventh son of William Ralph Cartwright of Aynhoe Park, near Banbury, Henry Cartwright was born at Aynhoe Park on 1 September 1814 and educated at Eton. He joined the army as an ensign in the Grenadier Guards on 26 July 1832, rising to the rank of captain on 2 October 1846 and colonel on 20 June 1854. He sold out in 1857. From 20 February 1858 to 11 November 1868 he was the Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire. 

He appears on the 1861 census with his wife, at Sunbury House, Tonbridge Wells, the home of his brother Cornwallis Cartwright, late of the Bengal Civil Service. He gave his profession as 'Member of Parliament.'

Colonel Henry Cartwright, 'formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel in Her Majesty's Grenadier Guards,' died at Eydon Hall in Northamptonshire on 26 July 1890. He left an estate valued at £125,710. 

According to a short obituary that appeared in the Manchester Courier (20 July 1890): 'The death is announced of Colonel Henry Cartwright, late of the Grenadier Guards, and formerly member for South Northamptonshire. Colonel Cartwright was 75 years of age. He was elected for Parliament in 1858 on the succession of Lord Althrop, his colleague, to the peerage, and was Sir Rainald Knightley's colleague in the House for ten years. He had of late lived a retired life at Eydon Hall, Northamptonshire, where he died. He was a staunch Conservative.'