Robert Edgcumbe (politician)

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Robert Edgcumbe. Caricature in the Vanity Fair, 1908

Sir Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe (called Robert Edgcumbe ; also Robert Pearce-Edgcumbe ) (born March 13, 1851 , † September 29, 1929 ) was a British politician, author and lawyer.

Origin and education

Robert Edgcumbe was born as Robert Pearce, the only son of Edward Pearce and his wife Clara Jane Palmer . His father worked as a bank clerk in Somerleigh , Dorchester . Pearce attended King's College , Cambridge, where he was awarded the English Declamation Prize and Queen's Prizeman in 1871 . In 1874 he received a grant from the Royal Academy of Arts . In 1877 he was a barrister admitted.

Political activity

From 1884 to 1885, Pearce served on the High Court of Justice . From 1885 to 1895 he was a partner in Weymouth Old Bank . In 1891 he served as Mayor of Dorchester for one year. In a by-election to the House of Commons in 1891 and in the general election in 1892 , he ran for the Liberal Party candidate for the constituency of South Dorset , but was narrowly beaten both times. In the general election in 1895 he ran for the Liberal Party in Hereford to no avail . In 1895 he was promoted to Knight Bachelor . With royal permission he was allowed to take the name Edgcumbe as a descendant of the Edgcumbe family from Lamerton , a sideline of the old Edgcumbe family from Tavistock . Edgcumbe is one of the founders of the Small Holdings Movement , which was intended to encourage smallholders to counteract the rural exodus as a result of industrialization. Edgcumbe was able to create several smallholder jobs in Rew , Dorset, but ultimately the movement failed to establish itself. He later moved to Newquay , Cornwall , where he served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall.

Edgcumbe was awarded the Belgian Order of the Crown with Golden Palms and in 1921 the title of Doctor of Laws.

Others

Edgcumbe was considered an art lover who collected African and South American art while traveling through South America and Africa. He published several books including:

  • The Law of Bills of Sale. The Bills of Sale Acts, 1878 and 1882; with notes, forms, etc. H. Sweet, London, 1882.
  • Zephyrus. A holiday in Brazil and on the River Plate . Chatto & Windus, London 1887
  • Popular Fallacies regarding trade and foreign duties (together with Frédéric Bastiat). Cassell, London 1888
  • Family records relating to the families of Pearce of Holsworthy, Edgcumbe of Laneast, Eliot of Lostwithiel, Livingstone of Calendar, Reynolds of Exeter, Gayer of Liskeard, and others . W. Pollard & Co., Exeter 1895
  • The parentage and kinsfolk of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Chiswick, London 1901.
  • The Works of Arthur Clement Hilton. Together with his life and letters. Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge 1904.

Family and offspring

Edgcumbe's first marriage in 1884 was Clara Jane Constance Conybeare , a daughter of John C. Conybeare of Ingatestone . She died in 1888. On August 6, 1891, he married Frances Foley , daughter of Admiral FitzGerald Algernon Charles Foley from Fordingbridge . With her he had three sons, including:

literature

EDGCUMBE, Sir (Edward) Robert Pearce , In: Who Was Who, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014. accessed on May 11, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Edgcumbe, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edgcumbe, Sir Robert Pearce (full name); Pearce-Edgcumbe, Robert; Pearce, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, author and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1851
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1929