Edward Drake Brockman | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Hythe |
Term Start: | 31 July 1847 |
Term End: | 28 March 1857 |
Predecessor: | Stewart Marjoribanks |
Successor: | John William Ramsden |
Birth Date: | 20 December 1793 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Whig |
Parents: | James Drake-Brockman |
Edward Drake Brockman (20 December 1793 – 5 November 1858) was a British barrister and Whig politician.[1]
Brockman was a younger son of James Drake Brockman of Beachborough, near Hythe, Kent, High Sheriff of Kent for 1791.[2] He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1819, becoming Recorder of Folkestone.[3]
He was elected Whig MP for Hythe at the 1847 general election and held the seat until 1857, when he did not stand in that year's general election.[4]