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Authorised form of nameLoveden; Edward Loveden (1751 - 1822)
Dates1751 - 1822
Date of birth1751
Date of death04 January 1822
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Oxford. Created DCL (1793)
Career:
Had Buscot Park built for him (1779-1783); High Sheriff of Berkshire (1781-1782); MP for Abingdon (1783-1796); co-founder of the Board of Agriculture (1793); MP for Shaftesbury (1802-1812); magistrate (JP) in Berkshire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire; Lieutenant-Colonel, Berkshire militia
Memberships:
FSA; RASE (Vice-President 1807)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/11/1805
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Loveden of Cirencester, Gloucestershire; married three times: 1) (1773) Margaret Pryse, their son was Pryse Loveden, later Pryse Pryse, and two daughters; 3) (1794) Anne Lintall, whom he divorced (1809) after she had an affair
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Notes:
Details surrounding the divorce in: Lawrence Stone, Broken lives : separation and divorce in England 1660-1857 (Oxford: OUP, 1993), p.248-269
CodeNA3051
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1805/07Loveden, Edward Loveden: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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