631 Edward Sartoris

Constituency : Camarthenshire 1868-74

Edward  took  one  of  the  Carmarthenshire  seats  from  the  Tories. The  seat  had  been  in  the  pockets  of  the  Earls  of  Cawdor , usually  going  uncontested. Edward  benefited  from  being  a  relative  "outsider"  and  the  support  of  the  non-conformist  clergy.

Edward's  father  was  a  French  banker  although  Edward  was  born  in  London  and  educated  at  Cambridge. On the  death  of   his  uncle  in  1863  he inherited  large  estates  in  Hampshire  and  Carmarthenshire where  there  were  coal  deposits.

Edward's  parliamentary  interventions  were  usually  concerned  with  education.

In  1874  Edward  was  defeated  and  retired  from  active  politics. He  was  a  keen  yachtsman. Later  in  1874  his  son  Algernon  married  the  daughter  of  President  Grant  in  the  White  House.

He  died  in  1888  aged  74.