Charles Lemon

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Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet (1784 – 13 February 1868) was a British Member of Parliament for several constituencies, a baronet and the second president (1836-8) of what is now the Royal Statistical Society.

Lemon served as Member of Parliament for Penryn, Cornwall from 1807 to 1812 and again from 1830 to 1831. In 1831, he became Member for Cornwall serving until the Reform Act 1832, whereafter he was Member for Cornwall West until 1841. In 1842 he was again returned for Cornwall West, serving until 1857.

He inherited his baronetcy in 1824 upon the death of his father Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet. His mother had been Lady Lemon, who had been the eldest daughter of James Buller MP for Cornwall and Jane, in turn eldest daughter of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst. He married on December 5, 1810 to Lady Charlotte Ann Foxstrangways, 4th daughter of Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester. He had no son or male heir, so the baronetcy became extinct on his death.

He funded the establishment of what is now the Camborne School of Mines. The name "Lemon" lives on in Truro as "Lemon Street" and "Lemon Quay".