Edward Augustus Edgcumbe, third earl of Mount Edgcumbe

(1797-1861)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mount Edgcumbe, Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1797-1861 LBT ID: LdMtEdgec3 VIAF ID: 75873355 LOC ID: no89020591	B/BAP: 1797-03-23 DIED: 1861-09-03
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The son of the second earl (d. 1839); he was a Tory MP for Fowey (1819-26) and Lostwithiel (1826-30) and aide-de-camp to William IV and Queen Victoria.
REFERENCES TO Edward Augustus Edgcumbe, third earl of Mount Edgcumbe: Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, [September?] 1838 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1838