Charles Rumbold

Charles Edmund Rumbold (11 August 1788 – 31 May 1857)^[1] 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.^[2] Rumbold was educated at Oriel College, Oxford and went then to Trinity College, Cambridge.^[3][4] In 1812, he began his Grand Tour and returned a year later.^[4]

Rumbold was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth in 1818, a seat he held until 1835.^[1] In the general election of 1837 he returned to the House of Commons and sat for the constituency again until 1847.^[1] In a by-election in the following year, he stood successfully a third time for Great Yarmouth and represented it until his death in 1857.^[1]

In 1834, he married Harriet, daughter of John Gardner and had by her three sons.^[4] He died at Brighton, aged 68 and was buried at Preston Candover in Hampshire.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Great Yarmouth". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ycommons.htm. Retrieved 23 October 2009. 
2. ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. pp. 557. 
3. ^ Rumbold, Charles Edmund in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Thorne, R. G. (1986). The House of Commons, 1790-1820. vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg. pp. 60. ISBN 0436521016. 
5. ^ "ThePeerage - Charles Edmund Rumbold". http://www.thepeerage.com/p17364.htm#i173631. Retrieved 16 February 2009. 

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Rumbold

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Loftus Edmund Knowles Lacon	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1818 – 1835 With: Thomas Anson 1818–1819 Hon. George Anson 1819–1835	Succeeded by Thomas Baring Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Preceded by Thomas Baring Winthrop Mackworth Praed	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1837 – 1847 With: William Wilshere	Succeeded by Lord Arthur Lennox Octavius Edward Coope
Preceded by Lord Arthur Lennox Octavius Edward Coope	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1848 – 1857 With: Joseph Sandars 1848–1852 Sir Edmund Lacon 1852–1857	Succeeded by William Torrens McCullagh Edward William Watkin

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Name	Rumbold, Charles
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Date of birth	11 August 1788
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Date of death	31 May 1857
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