Edmund Lacon

For others of this name, see Lacon Baronets.

Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, 3rd Baronet (14 August 1807 – 2 December 1888) was an English brewer and banker and liberal Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1852 and 1885.

Lacon was the son of Sir Edmund Knowles Lacon, 2nd Baronet and his wife Eliza Beecroft, daughter of Thomas Beecroft of Saxthorpe Hall. He was educated at Eton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He became a brewer and banker at Great Yarmouth. In 1839 he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Norfolk, and a JP for Suffolk. He was a Lieutenant Colonel commanding the East Norfolk Militia and the 1st Norfolk Administrative Battalion Artillery and a High Steward of Yarmouth.

He was one of the original shareholders in the Yarmouth & Norwich Railway in 1842 which was Norfolk's first railway. He was later a director of the Yarmouth & Haddiscoe Railway and the East Suffolk Railway.

Lacon was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth at the 1852 general election and held the seat until his defeat in 1857. He regained the seat in 1859 and held it until the seat was disenfranchised for corruption at the 1868 general election. At the 1868 general election he was elected instead as MP for North Norfolk. He held that seat until the 1885 general election, when he did not stand again.

Lacon died at the age of 81 .

Lacon married Eliza Georgiana Hammet, daughter of James Esdaile Hammet of Battersea. They had a grandson, Harry Reginald Dunbar Lacon, who married Hilda Mary Slayter, a Titanic survivor.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edmund Lacon

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joseph Sandars Charles Rumbold	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1852–1857 With: Charles Rumbold	Succeeded by Edward Watkin John Mellor
Preceded by Adolphus William Young John Mellor	Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1859–1868 With: Sir Henry Stracey, Bt to 1865 James Goodson from 1865	Constituency disenfranchised
New constituency	Member of Parliament for North Norfolk 1868–1885 With: Frederick Walpole to 1876 James Duff 1876–79 Edward Birkbeck from 1879	Succeeded by Herbert Cozens-Hardy
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edmund Knowles Lacon	Baronet (of Great Yarmouth) 1839–1888	Succeeded by Edmund Broughton Knowles Lacon