Edmund Lacon

Sir
Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon
3rd Baronet
Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon 3rd Baronet
Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth
	In office; 1852–1857 Serving with Charles Rumbold
Preceded by	Joseph Sandars; Charles Rumbold
Succeeded by	Edward Watkin; John Mellor
Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth
	In office; 1859–1868 Serving with Sir Henry Stracey, Bt to 1865; James Goodson from 1865
Preceded by	Adolphus William Young; John Mellor
Succeeded by	Constituency disenfranchised
Personal details
Born	14 August 1807
Died	2 December 1888 (aged 81)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Eliza Georgiana Hammet (m. 1839; died 1881)
Children	6
Parents	Sir Edmund Lacon, 2nd Baronet (father); Eliza Beecroft (mother);
Relatives	Henry Goring Ravenhill (son-in-law)
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1860-1881
Rank	Honorary Colonel
Unit	East Norfolk Militia; 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers; Norfolk Regiment

Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, 3rd Baronet (14 August 1807 – 2 December 1888) was an English businessman and liberal Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1852 and 1885.

Early life

Lacon was the son of Sir Edmund Knowles Lacon, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Eliza Beecroft, daughter of Thomas Beecroft of Saxthorpe Hall. He was educated at Eton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.^[1] In 1839 he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father.^[2]^[3]

Business career

Lacon became a brewer and banker at Great Yarmouth.^[2] He was one of the original shareholders in the Yarmouth & Norwich Railway in 1842 which was Norfolk's first railway. He was later a director of the Yarmouth & Haddiscoe Railway and the East Suffolk Railway.^[4] He was also Chairman of the Great Yarmouth & Stalham Light Railway^[5] which later became part of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.

Military career

He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel commanding the East Norfolk Militia on 16 March 1860 and of the 1st Norfolk Administrative Battalion of Artillery Volunteers on 2 December 1864. He later became Honorary Colonel of both units' successors, the 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment and the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers (31 December 1881).^[2]^[3]^[6]

Political career

Lacon was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth at the 1852 general election and held the seat until his defeat in 1857.^[3]^[7] He regained the seat in 1859 and held it until the seat was disenfranchised for corruption at the 1868 general election.^[3]^[8] At the 1868 general election he was elected instead as MP for North Norfolk. He held that seat until the 1885 general election,^[3]^[9] when he did not stand again.^[10]

Public life

He was a Deputy Lieutenant and JP for Norfolk, a JP for Suffolk and High Steward of Yarmouth.^[2]^[3]

Family life

On 23 March 1839 Lacon married Eliza Georgiana Hammet (d. 31 March 1881), daughter of James Esdaile Hammet of Battersea, and they had six children:^[3]

Edmund Broughton Knowles Lacon (9 May 1842 – 11 August 1899), who succeeded his father as 4th Baronet
Thomas Beecroft Ussher Lacon (24 February 1845 – 28 February 1899), whose eldest son, Edmund Beecroft Francis Heathcote Lacon, succeeded as 5th Baronet, and whose third son, Harry Reginald Dunbar Lacon, married Hilda Mary Slayter, a Titanic survivor.
Henry Sidney Hammett Lacon (December 1847–30 June 1900)
Ernest De Montesquiou Lacon (1 May 1850 – 31 May 1936)
Georgina Lacon, (d. 4 April 1933) married Major-General Charles Henry Gordon
Eliza Walpole Lacon (d. 22 January 1928) married Colonel Henry Goring Ravenhill

Lacon died at the age of 81.

Arms

Coat of arms of Edmund Lacon
	Crest A mount Vert thereon a falcon Proper beaked and belled Or charged on the breast with a cross flory and gorged with a collar Gules. Escutcheon Quarterly per fess indented Erminois and Azure in the second quarter a wolf’s head erased Or. Motto Probitas Verus Honos^[11]

References

^ "Lacon, Edmund Henry Knowles (LCN823EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
^ Cooper, John M (April 1993). "The Lowestoft to Norwich Railway". Great Eastern Journal. 74: 4.
^ Digby, Nigel J L (2014). Stations and Structures of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway. Vol. 1. p. 3.
^ Army List various dates.
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 137. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
^ Burke's Peerage. 1914.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edmund Lacon

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joseph Sandars Charles Rumbold	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1852–1857 With: Charles Rumbold	Succeeded by Edward Watkin John Mellor
Preceded by Adolphus William Young John Mellor	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1859–1868 With: Sir Henry Stracey, Bt to 1865 James Goodson from 1865	Constituency disenfranchised
New constituency	Member of Parliament for North Norfolk 1868–1885 With: Frederick Walpole to 1876 James Duff 1876–79 Edward Birkbeck from 1879	Succeeded by Herbert Cozens-Hardy
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edmund Lacon	Baronet (of Great Yarmouth) 1839–1888	Succeeded by Edmund Broughton Knowles Lacon

[1] "Lacon, Edmund Henry Knowles (LCN823EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[Debrett-2] Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881

[Burke-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.

[4] Cooper, John M (April 1993). "The Lowestoft to Norwich Railway". Great Eastern Journal. 74: 4.

[5] Digby, Nigel J L (2014). Stations and Structures of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway. Vol. 1. p. 3.

[6] Army List various dates.

[craig1832-1885-7] Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 137. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

[8] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)

[9] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)

[craig1885-1918-10] Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

[11] Burke's Peerage. 1914.

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