Edward Disbrowe

Edward Disbrowe (d. 1818) was an English soldier and politician. He came from an old Northamptonshire family connected with Oliver Cromwell, through an ancestor who fought for Parliament during the English Civil War and married a sister of the Lord Protector. Edward was a colonel of the Staffordshire militia, before serving as Member of Parliament for Windsor. He later held a variety of offices by royal appointment, including Equerry to George III, Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Charlotte, and Master of St Katharine's by the Tower.

He married Charlotte Hobart, daughter of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire; she predeceased him in 1798. They had six children, among them Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, MP for Windsor, and Charlotte Albina Disbrowe, who married Herbert Taylor, Edward's successor as Master of St. Katharine's. Edward Disbrowe died in 1818.

Sources

Bulmer, T. (1895). "History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire". Google Books (originally T. Snape & Co.). Retrieved 5 February 2017.
O'Byrne, Robert Henry (1848). "The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland". Google Books (originally John Ollivier). Retrieved 5 February 2017.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.