Edward Penrhyn

Edward Penrhyn (16 September 1794 – 6 March 1861), previously Edward Leycester, was an English barrister and briefly a member of parliament.

The son of the Rev. Oswald Leycester (later Oswald Penrhyn), of Stoke, Shropshire, by his marriage to Mary, a daughter of Mr P. Johnson, of Timperley, Cheshire, Edward Leycester was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted in February 1813 and matriculated in October. He soon gained a Scholarship, was President of the Cambridge Union Society in the Easter term of 1816, graduated BA in 1817, and was promoted to MA in 1820. In 1818 he was admitted to the Middle Temple.[1][2]

He assumed the name of Penrhyn in lieu of Leycester, in accordance with the will of Baroness Penrhyn in 1817,[2] and on 16 December 1823 married Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Stanley (1801–1853), a daughter of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby and a sister of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who in 1852 became prime minister. In 1823 he was "of East Sheen.[3] Their son Edward Hugh Leycester Penrhyn was born in 1827 and another son, Oswald Henry Leycester Penrhyn, in 1828. Both became first-class cricketers, the elder became an army officer and was the first chairman of Surrey County Council, while the younger entered the church and became Rector of Winwick, Cheshire.

Penrhyn was one of the Members of Parliament for Shaftesbury from 1830 to 1832, sitting as a Whig.[4] He also became chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Surrey.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 A. J. C. Hare, Memorials of a Quiet Life (3rd edition), pp. 2-4
  2. 1 2 John Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses 1752–1900, vol. iv (1947), p. 167
  3. ↑ Derby, Earl of (E, 1485) in Cracrofts Peerage online, accessed 7 July 2016
  4. ↑ PENRHYN, Edward (1794-1861), of The Cedars, East Sheen, Surr., History of Parliament
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