Edward Sheldon (politician)

Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon (2 March 1782 – 11 June 1836) was an English politician. He represented the constituency of South Warwickshire from 1835 until his death.

Life

Sheldon was the only son of Ralph Sheldon (1741 – 1822), of Weston in Long Compton in Warwickshire, a convert from Anglicanism to the Church of England, who was MP for Wilton from 1804 to 1822.[1]

Sheldon moved to Brailes House in Warwickshire in 1822, the year of his father's death.[2] He became a magistrate for the counties of Warwickshire and Worcestershire, a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire, and major of the militia of Warwickshire.[3][4]

He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for South Warwickshire in 1835, representing the seat until his death the next year.[5]

Family

Sheldon married Marcella, daughter of Thomas Meredith Winstanley, of Lissen Hall, County Dublin, on 14 August 1817. They had eight children, five of whom died in childhood.[3]

Sheldon died on 11 June 1836, aged 54. His wife survived him by thirteen years, dying on 23 July 1849.[6] His son, Henry James Sheldon, was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1860.[7]

Notes
  1. "SHELDON, Ralph (1741-1822), of Donnington, nr. Newbury, Berks. and King Street, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  2. "The Sheldon Family". Windows on Warwickshire. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  3. Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard (1847). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. II. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher. p. 1226.
  4. Barnard, Ettwell Augustine Bracher (1936). The Sheldons, being some account of the Sheldon Family of Worcestershire and Warwickshire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-107-67421-9.
  5. "SHELDON, Edward Charles Ralph (1782-1836), of Brailes House, Warwickshire". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  6. Urban, Sylvanus (October 1849). "Obituary". The Gentleman's Magazine. pp. 446–447. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  7. "No. 22348". The London Gazette. 23 January 1860. p. 214.

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