Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (22 May 1830 – 31 May 1883) was a major-general''Gentleman's Magazine'', September 1867, p. 398 and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicestershire North from 1880 until his death. He served in the

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Biography

The son of Edwyn Burnaby and Anne Caroline Salisbury, Burnaby was educated at

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and in 1848 entered the

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, serving at

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and in the Siege of Sebastopol. He was the brigadier-general of the British Italian Legion from 1855 to 1857. Burnaby was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Leicestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1878. He inherited Baggrave Hall,

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on the death of his father in 1867. In 1880 he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for North Leicestershire together with

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. He married Louisa Julia Mary Dixie (1843-1881) on 29 August 1864 at

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. She was the daughter of Sir Willoughby Wolstan Dixie, 8th Baronet, of Market Bosworth. They had two children: Algernon Edwyn Burnaby (1867–1938), who married Hon. Sybil Cholmondeley (1871–1911), daughter of Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere, and Hilda Burnaby. He was a first cousin of Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and a great-uncle of

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through his sister

Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Burnaby; 23 November 18326 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Early life Caroline Louisa Burnaby was born at Baggrav ...

. He died on 31 May 1883 in

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aged 53.

References

* *https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/2500278/captain-edwyn-sherard-burnaby-1830-1883

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