Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet

Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (14 June 1809 – 8 January 1857)[1] was an English Conservative Party politician.

For his son, see Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet.

Sir Edmund Filmer, 1830 portrait

Life

He was the son of Edmund Filmer, a younger son of Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet, and his wife Emelia Skene, daughter of George Skene.[2] He matriculated in 1827 at Oriel College, Oxford.[3]

Filmer was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in March 1838 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kent,[4] having unsuccessfully contested the same constituency at the 1837 general election. He held the seat until his death in 1857, aged 47.[1] His son the 9th Baronet was elected as MP for West Kent in 1859.[4]

In 1850 Sir Edmund built Leagrave Hall on land close to Luton in Bedfordshire which had been purchased in 1771 by Sir Beversham Filmer.[5]

References
  1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  2. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1839. p. 407.
  3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Filmer, (Sir) Edmund (Bart.) (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 406. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir William Geary, Bt
Thomas Law Hodges		 Member of Parliament for West Kent
1838 – 1857
With: Thomas Law Hodges to 1841
Viscount Marsham 1841–1845
Thomas Austen 1845–1847
Thomas Law Hodges 1847–1852
William Masters Smith from 1852		 Succeeded by
Charles Wykeham Martin
William Masters Smith
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
John Filmer		 Baronet
(of East Sutton)
1834 – 1857		 Succeeded by
Edmund Filmer


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