Christopher Codrington

Sir Christopher William Codrington (12 March 1805 – 24 June 1864), of Dodington, Gloucestershire, was a Conservative British MP for East Gloucestershire between 7 August 1834 and 24 June 1864 and a landowner in Gloucestershire.

Early life Codrington was the eldest son of Christopher Bethell-Codrington (1764–1843) and the former Hon. Harriet Foley (d. 1843). His father had inherited Dodington Park in Gloucestershire from a relative who disinherited his son; (The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Beverley and Tewkesbury.) He disinherited his son Sir William, the third Baronet, possibly for his marriage, and bequeathed his estates to his nephew Christopher Bethell-Codrington (the son of his brother Edward Codrington, fourth son of the first Baronet).

His paternal grandfather was Edward Codrington. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley of Kidderminster and the former Lady Henrietta Stanhope (herself daughter of the Earl of Harrington). Through his maternal grandmother, Codrington was thus connected to the earls of Sefton, the barons Penrhyn and landed gentry families. When Worcester's father died in 1853, he became 8th Duke of Beaufort and was translated to the House of Lords. His seat was then filled briefly by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 8th Baronet between 9 January 1854 and 29 November 1854 when Hicks-Beach died. A second by-election on 19 December 1854 resulted in the election of Robert Stayner Holford, a wealthy landowner and dilettante, as the second member. Codrington and Holford represented East Gloucestershire for the next ten years, until Codrington's own death in 1864. Together, they were the parents of: who married his first half-cousin maternally, Lady Edith Henrietta Sybil Denison, daughter of William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough and Lady Edith Somerset (youngest daughter of the 7th Duke of Beaufort), in 1887. Alice Emily Georgiana Olivia Codrington (d. 1920), who married Sir Henry Mervyn Vavasour, 3rd Baronet, of Spalington, son and heir of Sir Henry Vavasour, 2nd Baronet, in 1891.