About Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet
Lived 1809 – 1857 (aged 47). Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet was a British politician.
Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (14 June 1809 – 8 January 1857) was an English Conservative Party politician.
Life He was the son of Edmund Filmer, a younger son of Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet, and his wife Emelia Skene, daughter of George Skene. He matriculated in 1827 at Oriel College, Oxford.
Filmer was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in March 1838 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kent, having unsuccessfully contested the same constituency at the 1837 general election. He held the seat until his death in 1857, aged 47.
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British Baronet (1809–1857)
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Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet was born on 14 June 1809.
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Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet died on 8 January 1857.
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