Charles Rumbold Explained

Charles Edmund Rumbold (11 August 1788 – 31 May 1857) was a British Whig politician.

He was the fifth son of Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Joanna Law, daughter of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle.[1] Rumbold was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and then went to Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] In 1812, he began his Grand Tour and returned a year later.[2]

Rumbold was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth in 1818, a seat he held until 1835.[3] In the general election of 1837 he returned to the House of Commons and sat for the constituency again until 1847.[3] In a by-election the following year, he was elected a third time for Great Yarmouth and represented it until his death in 1857.[3]

In 1834, he married Harriet, daughter of John Gardner, and had three sons with her.[2] He died at Brighton, at the age of 68, and was buried at Preston Candover in Hampshire.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Walford, Edward . The County Families of the United Kingdom . 1860 . Robert Hardwicke . London . 557 .
  2. Book: Thorne, R. G. . The House of Commons, 1790-1820 . III . Secker & Warburg . London . 1986 . 0-436-52101-6 . 60 .
  3. Web site: Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Great Yarmouth . 23 October 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231739/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ycommons.htm . 10 August 2009 .
  4. Web site: ThePeerage - Charles Edmund Rumbold . 16 February 2009 .