Edwyn Sherard Burnaby
Politician
1830 – 1883
Who was Edwyn Sherard Burnaby?
Edwyn Sherard Burnaby was a major-general and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Leicestershire North from 1880 until his death. He served in the Crimean War.
He was the son of Edwyn Burnaby and Anne Caroline Salisbury. He was educated at Eton and in 1848 entered the Grenadier Guards and served at Inkerman and the siege of Sebastopol. He was Brigadier-General of the British Italian Legion from 1855 to 1857.
He inherited Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire on the death of his father in 1867. In 1880 he was elected Conservative member of Parliament for North Leicestershire together with Lord John Manners.
He died at Brighton.
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- Born
- 1830
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Eton College
- Died
- May 31, 1883
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on July 23, 2013
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