Edward Downes Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough

Commander Edward Downes Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough (9 May 1841 – 9 December 1915), was a British Royal Navy officer and member of the House of Lords.

Early life Law was born on 9 May 1841. He was the son of Hon. Henry Spencer Law and Dorothea Anne Rochfort. His younger brother was Col. Cecil Henry Law, who commanded the 2nd battalion Dorsetshire Regiment during the Second Boer War in South Africa. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 29 July 1902.

Personal life On 19 December 1906 in London, Lord Ellenborough married Hermione Octavia Croghan Schenley (–1942), a daughter of Mary Elizabeth Croghan and the late Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley (former MP for Dartmouth), of Pittsburgh, and ward of Andrew Carnegie, and they lived at Windlesham Court in Surrey.

Lord Ellenborough died in 1915 and was succeeded by his brother Cecil, who became the 6th Baron Ellenborough.

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