Charles March-Phillipps

Charles March-Phillipps (28 May 1779 – 24 April 1862)[1] was a British Radical[2][3] politician from Garendon Park in Leicestershire.[4] He sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1818 and 1837.

Charles March-Phillipps
Captain of the Leicestershire Yeomanry
In office 1803-1807
Member of Parliament
In office 1818-1820
Constituency	Leicestershire
In office 1831-1837
Constituency	North Leicestershire
High Sheriff of Leicestershire
In office 1825-1826
Personal details
Born	May 28, 1779
Died	April 24, 1862 (aged 82)
Political party	Radical
Children	3
Alma mater	Eton College, Sidney Sussex College

Garendon Hall, near Loughborough

Personal life

He was the eldest son of Thomas March Phillipps (formerly March) of More Critchell, Dorset and educated at Sherborne (until 1791), Eton College (1793–1796) and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1800–02).[5] He was a captain in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1803 to 1807. He succeeded his father to Garendon Hall, Leicestershire in 1817.

He married Harriet, the daughter of John Gustavus Ducarel of Walford, Somerset and had two sons and a daughter. His son Ambrose Charles Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle converted to Roman Catholicism and founded Mount St Bernard Abbey.

Political career

He was elected at the 1818 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Leicestershire,[6] and held the seat until 1820,[1] when he did not contest the election.[7] He was returned again at the 1831 general election,[4] and held the seat until the 1831 general election, when the county was divided under the Reform Act. He was then elected for the new Northern division of Leicestershire,[8] and held the seat until he stood down at the 1837 general election.[9]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1825–26.

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
2. "Leicester Herald". 17 December 1834. p. 8. Retrieved 12 May 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1836. p. 142. Retrieved 12 May 2019 – via Google Books.
4. "No. 18808". The London Gazette. 31 May 1831. p. 1052.
5. "Phillipps, Charles March (PHLS796CM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
6. "No. 17378". The London Gazette. 14 July 1818. p. 1264.
7. Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 191. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
8. "No. 19008". The London Gazette. 28 December 1832. p. 2837.
9. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 415. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

• "MARCH PHILLIPPS, Charles (1779-1862), of Garendon Park, Leics". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 30 August 2013.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles March-Phillipps