Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet KCB GCH (30 July 1776 – 9 March 1853) was a British Army officer and politician.

Kerrison was a lieutenant-lolonel in the 7th Light Dragoons, saw service during the Peninsular War and commanded his regiment at the Battle of Waterloo.

[1] Along with Charles Wetherell, he petitioned parliament over electoral malpractice in the parliamentary elections for Shaftesbury, Dorset.

[3] At St George's Church, Hanover Square, London, on 20 Oct 1810,[4] Edward Kerrison married Mary Martha Ellice, a daughter of Alexander Ellice, a merchant who had made a fortune in the North American fur trade and transatlantic slave trade.

Thus he had as a brother-in-law Edward Ellice, merchant and politician in Earl Grey's government.

Monument in Hoxne Church to Agnes-Burrell Kerrison (Lady Bateman), youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edward Kerrison and wife of William Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman , who was "the last surviving member of her branch of the Kerrison family"