Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet
Politician
1749 – 1833
Who was Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet?
Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet was a British baronet and politician.
Born Edmund Bunney, he was the son of Joseph Bunney and Mary Cradock in Freathby, Leicestershire. He changed his name upon his marriage to Anne Hurlock in 1777 to Cradock-Hartopp consequent upon the provisions of the wills of his uncle Joseph Cradock and his wife's grandfather Sir John Hartopp, 4th and last Baronet.
He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1781 and Member of Parliament for Leicestershire between 1798 and 1806.
In 1792 he acquired Four Oaks Hall, Sutton Coldfield the town of which he was briefly Warden in 1823.
He was awarded the Baronetcy in 1796.
He married in 1777, Anne, the daughter of Joseph Hublock, Governor of Benoolen and one of the Directors of the East India Company. He died in Bristol in 1833 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son Edmund.
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