Edward Carson (17 February 1920 – 6 March 1987) was a British

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politician.

Personal life

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Edward Carson was the youngest child of

Lord Carson Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson, PC, PC (Ire) (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who served as the Attorney General and Solicitor ...

's five children (born when his father was 66), and he was the only child of his father's second wife Lucy Frewen. Carson married Heather, daughter of Frank Arthur Sclater, O.B.E., M.C., of Milford, Surrey, in 1943; their son, Edward Rory Carson, married Araminta, daughter of Sir John James MacDonald Horlick, 5th Baronet, in 1975. Edward Carson was educated at

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and then

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– as was his son (a barrister who lives in

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) and two of his grandsons – and at

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.Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1967, pg 291

Member of Parliament

Carson was the

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(MP) for the

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from 1945, when aged 25, until he resigned from the

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for health reasons in 1953. He died in March 1987 at the age of 67.

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* 1920 births 1987 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Sons of life peers UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 People educated at Ludgrove School {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1920s-stub