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2 unusual facts about Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards


Edward Sugden

Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards (1781–1875), English jurist and Conservative politician.

Thames Ditton Island

Boyle Farm was in the 19th century the property of The First Lord St Leonards (1781—1875), a jurist (legal researcher and publisher), barrister, and Lord Chancellor.


Baron St Leonards

It was created in 1852 for Sir Edward Sugden, Lord Chancellor in Lord Derby's 1852 administration.

Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards

In Lord Derby's first government in 1852 be became Lord Chancellor (of Great Britain) and was raised to the peerage as Baron St Leonards, of Slaugham in the County of Sussex.

She died in May 1861, Lord St Leonards died at Boyle Farm, Thames Ditton, in January 1875, aged 93, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson, Edward.


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