SLAVE TRADE TORY ANTI-ABOLITIONIST EDMONSTONE MP FREE FRANK COVER SIGNED 1806!

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HERE’S AN
1806
BRITISH MP FREE FRANK FRONT PANEL FROM LONDON, ENGLAND, SIGNED BY
SIR CHARLES EDMONSTONE
2
nd
Baronet,
12
t
h
of Dunreath
(1764 - 1821)
ANTI-SLAVERY ABOLITIONIST TORY PARTY MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS REPRESENTING DUMBARTON 1806-1807, and STIRLING 1812-1821
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AVID SUPPORTER OF PRIME MINISTER LORD LIVERPOOL'S GOVERNMENT DURING THE LATER PART OF THE
NAPOLEONIC WARS
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Historical Note:
In 1833, the first meeting of the
House of Commons
met following the 1832
Great Reform Act
and the
subsequent general election
that produced a landslide majority for the ruling
Whig Government
. Also known as
The First Reformed Parliament
. Britain ultimately passed the Slavery Abolition Act on Aug. 1, 1834.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF SIR CHARLES EDMONSTONE
Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet
(10 October 1764 – 1 April 1821), also 12th of Duntreath, was a Scottish politician.
Edmonstone was the third son of
Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet
. He was educated at
Eton College
and subsequently at
Christ Church, Oxford
. Having been called to the Bar, he was one of the six clerks in Chancery until the time of his father's death.
In 1806, he was elected Member for
Dumbartonshire
, but he lost his seat in the general election of the following year.
In 1812, he became member of parliament for
Stirlingshire
and held the seat until his death. A
Tory
like his father, he supported Lord Liverpool's government during the later part of the
Napoleonic Wars
.
Doctor Patrick Graham, minister of Aberfoyle, in his report on Stirlingshire (Edinburgh 1812) praises Sir Charles for
"his new farm houses, for his farms enlarged in a judicious style... (and for) the extensive plantations he made on Duntreath estate in 1807."
Edmonstone married firstly, Emma, daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle of
Rode Hall
,
Cheshire
, by whom he had a son and a daughter. He married secondly on 5 December 1804 Louisa Hotham (9 October 1778 – 30 August 1840), daughter of
Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham
, by whom he had four sons and two daughters. His second daughter, Louisa Henrietta, married John Kingston of Demerara in 1829.
He died at
Brighton
in 1821, apparently from a stroke, aged fifty eight, and was succeeded by his eldest son.
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