Charles March-Phillipps

Charles March-Phillipps (28 May 1779 – 24 April 1862)[1] was a British Radical[2] politician from Garendon Park in Leicestershire.[3] He sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1818 and 1837.

Charles March-Phillipps
Captain of the Leicestershire Yeomanry
In office
1803-1807
Member of Parliament
In office
1818-1820
ConstituencyLeicestershire
In office
1831-1837
ConstituencyNorth Leicestershire
High Sheriff of Leicestershire
In office
1825-1826
Personal details
Born(1779-05-28)28 May 1779
Died24 April 1862(1862-04-24) (aged 82)
Political partyRadical
Children3
Alma materEton College, Sidney Sussex College
Garendon Hall, near Loughborough

Personal life

He was the eldest son of Thomas March Phillipps (formerly March) of More Critchell, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School (until 1791), Eton College (1793–1796) and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1800–02).[4] He was a captain in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1803 to 1807. He succeeded his father to Garendon Hall, Leicestershire, in 1817.

He married Harriet, the daughter of John Gustavus Ducarel of Walford, Somerset, and had two sons and a daughter. His son Ambrose Charles Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle converted to Roman Catholicism and founded Mount St Bernard Abbey.

Political career

He was elected at the 1818 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Leicestershire,[5] and held the seat until 1820,[1] when he did not contest the election.[6] He was returned again at the 1831 general election,[3] and held the seat until the 1831 general election, when the county was divided under the Reform Act. He was then elected for the new Northern division of Leicestershire,[7] and held the seat until he stood down at the 1837 general election.[8]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1825–26.

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
  2. "Leicester Herald". 17 December 1834. p. 8. Retrieved 12 May 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
    - Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1836. p. 142. Retrieved 12 May 2019 – via Google Books.
  3. "No. 18808". The London Gazette. 31 May 1831. p. 1052.
  4. "Phillipps, Charles March (PHLS796CM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. "No. 17378". The London Gazette. 14 July 1818. p. 1264.
  6. Stooks Smith, Henry (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 191. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  7. "No. 19008". The London Gazette. 28 December 1832. p. 2837.
  8. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 415. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.



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