Edward Cazalet (merchant)

Edward Cazalet (9 November 1827 – 21 April 1883), was a British merchant and industrialist.

[1] The family descended from Huguenots who fled France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

[2][3][4] On 15 March 1860, Cazalet married Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall (d. 1888), daughter and heir of William Marshall, doctor and Danish consul in Edinburgh.

[1] In 1872, Cazalet purchased the estate of Fairlawne at Shipbourne in Kent; he also owned Villa Liserb at Cimiez in the south of France, which was often visited by Queen Victoria, who became godmother to his grandson, Victor Cazalet, born 1896.

[3] Cazalet died of typhus at the Hôtel d'Angleterre, Constantinople, on 21 April 1883, and was survived by his wife.