Sir Edmund Filmer, 1830 portrait

Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (14 June 1809 – 8 January 1857)[1] was an English Conservative Party politician.

Life

He was the son of Edmund Filmer, a younger son of Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet, and his wife Emelia Skene, daughter of George Skene.[2] He matriculated in 1827 at Oriel College, Oxford.[3]

Filmer was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in March 1838 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kent,[4] having unsuccessfully contested the same constituency at the 1837 general election. He held the seat until his death in 1857, aged 47.[1] His son the 9th Baronet was elected as MP for West Kent in 1859.[4]

In 1850 Sir Edmund built Leagrave Hall on land close to Luton in Bedfordshire which had been purchased in 1771 by Sir Beversham Filmer.[5]

Arms

Coat of arms of Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet
Crest
A falcon volant Proper beaked and legged Or standing on a ruined castle of the last.
Escutcheon
Barry of six Or and Sable on a chief of the last three cinquefoils of the first.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1839. p. 407.
  3. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Filmer, (Sir) Edmund (Bart.) (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [First published 1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 406. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  5. ↑ "Moorlands Independent School and Nursery, Luton, Bedfordshire :: Key Information". Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  6. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1915.


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