Richard Edensor Heathcote
Richard Edensor Heathcote (1780–1850) was a British industrialist and politician.
The son of Sir John Edensor Heathcote of . He was elected the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry in 1826 and at about the same time rebuilt Apedale Hall, near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, in the Elizabethan style. He died in Genoa, Italy, in 1850.
His grandson Captain Justinian H. Edwards-Heathcote was the father of Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote, mother of Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, who lived for a time at Apedale Hall.
References[]
- John Ward, The Borough of Stoke on Trent in the Commencement of the Reign of Queen Victoria (1848), p. 562
- The History of the County of Stafford, Volume 8 (1963) p 224. The History of Longton from British History Online
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard Edensor Heathcote
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