Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper

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Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper (26 October 1801 – 30 June 1880) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Strutt sat as a Member of Parliament for Derby from 1830 to 1848, for Arundel from 1851 to 1852 and for Nottingham from 1852 to 1856 and served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1852 to 1854 in the administration of Lord Aberdeen.

In 1856 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Belper, of Belper in the County of Derbyshire.

He married Amelia Harriet Otter and was the father of Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper.

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• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Samuel Crompton Henry Cavendish	Member of Parliament for Derby with Henry Cavendish 1830–1835; John Ponsonby 1835–1847; Edward Leveson-Gower 1847–1848 1830–1848	Succeeded by Laurence Hayworth Michael Thomas Bass
Preceded by Earl of Arundel	Member of Parliament for Arundel 1851–1852	Succeeded by The Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard
Preceded by Feargus O'Conner	Member of Parliament for Nottingham 1852–1856	Succeeded by Charles Paget
Political offices
Preceded by Robert Adam Christopher	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1852–1854	Succeeded by The Earl Granville
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Duke of Newcastle	Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire 1864–1880	Succeeded by The Duke of St Albans
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Belper 1856–1880	Succeeded by Henry Strutt