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Edward Grimston

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The Honourable Edward Harbottle Grimston (born 2 April 1812 at Mayfair, London; died 4 May 1881 at Pebmarsh, Essex) was an English amateur cricketer and a Conservative Party politician who held a seat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1841. Career Cricket Grimston played in 30 first-class cricket matches between 1832 and 1849, mainly for Oxford University and MCC. He was a right-handed batsman and an underarm medium pace bowler. Politics Grimston was elected at the 1835 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the borough of St Albans in Hertfordshire. He was re-elected in 1837, but resigned his seat in 1841 by the procedural device of appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Edward Grimston: English administrator and diplomat (d. 1478) · English politician and comptroller of Calais (1508–1600) · English lawyer and MP for Harwich; of Bradfield Hall, Essex

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The Honourable Edward Harbottle Grimston (born 2 April 1812 at Mayfair, London; died 4 May 1881 at Pebmarsh, Essex) was an English amateur cricketer and a Conservative Party politician who held a seat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1841. Career Cricket Grimston played in 30 first-class cricket matches between 1832 and 1849, mainly for Oxford University and MCC. He was a right-handed batsman and an underarm medium pace bowler. Politics Grimston was elected at the 1835 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the borough of St Albans in Hertfordshire. He was re-elected in 1837, but resigned his seat in 1841 by the procedural device of appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).