UCL

Sir James Buller East

Profile & Legacies Summary

1st Feb 1789 - 19th Nov 1878

Immediate descendant of a claimant or beneficiary

Biography

  1. Barrister. Only son of Sir Edward Hyde East (1764–1847) [q.v.], judge, and Jane Isabella, daughter of Joseph Chaplin Hankey of Old Hall, East Bergholt, Suffolk. Born in Bloomsbury, London. Educated at Harrow and Oxford. Called to the Bar (Inner Temple), 1834. His wife, Caroline Eliza (1794–1870), was the second daughter of James Henry Leigh and the Hon. Julia Twiselton Fiennes, daughter of Lord Saye and Sele. Succeeded his father as second baronet on 8 January 1847. Liberal Conservative MP, 1831-32, 1835-1864. Died at his home, Bourton House, near Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, 1878, leaving no heir.

  2. Member of the committee of the Eyre Defence Fund in 1866.


Sources

  1. Oxford DNB.

  2. The Eyre Defence and Aid Fund (London, 1866), p. 4.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Caroline Eliza Leigh (1794–1870)
School
Harrow
University
Christ Church, Oxford [1810; MA 1824; DCL 13 June 1834 ]
Legal Education
Inner Temple [Called to the Bar, 5 February 1813; bencher, 15 January 1856; reader,1869. ]
Occupation
Lawyer and politician
Religion
Anglican
Oxford DNB Entry
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Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house
Bourton House [Purchased] 
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Political (4)

Local Government
 
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office →
Deputy-Lieutenant
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office →
Justice of the Peace
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office →
Magistrate
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MP
Conservative 
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election →
Winchester Hampshire
1831 - 1832
election →
Winchester Hampshire
1835 - 1864

Relationships (2)

Sir James Buller East
Son → Father
Sir Edward Hyde East 1st Bart.
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Sir James Buller East
Grandson → Grandfather
Edward East
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Addresses (1)

Bourton House, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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