Edmund Backhouse (politician)

Edmund Backhouse (1824 – 7 June 1906), banker and J.P. on the County Durham and North Riding of Yorkshire benches.

[2] Both parents were ministers[3] of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), travelling in Great Britain and North America.

[4] Edmund Backhouse married Juliet Mary, daughter and sole heiress of Charles Fox of Trebah in Cornwall, and his wife, Sarah.

His executors sold Trebah to Mr. and Mrs. Hext [7] "Mr. Backhouse was a genial good-hearted gentleman, at once a banker and a country squire.

He was diligent and painstaking in all he undertook in public or private life, and was considered one of the ablest representatives sent from the north to Parliament.