Alexander Learmonth
Member of Parliament
for Colchester
In office
3 November 1870  31 March 1880
Serving with William Brewer (until 1874)
Herbert Mackworth-Praed (from 1874)
Preceded byJohn Gurdon Rebow
Succeeded byRichard Causton
William Willis
Personal details
Born1829
Edinburgh
Died10 March 1887
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Charlotte Lyons
(m. 1859)
ChildrenSeven

Lt. Col. Alexander Learmonth (1829 - 10 March 1887)[1] was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.

Life

Born at 4 Princes Street in Edinburgh, the eldest son of John Learmonth,[2] Alexander Learmonth was educated at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1847 before entering the Inner Temple to study law. He joined the Army and became a Colonel in the 17th Lancers.[3]

On retiring from the Army he was elected Conservative MP for Colchester on 3 November 1877,[4] sitting from 1870 to 1880.[5]

In 1859, he married Charlotte Lyons, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-General Humphrey Lyons. The couple had 7 children.

By 1878, his extravagant London lifestyle caused his bankruptcy and the lands he had inherited in Edinburgh from his father were sold to the builder James Steel.[6]

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)
  2. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1829
  3. "36" . Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 3.djvu via Wikisource.
  4. "Mr Alexander Learmonth, former MP, Colchester".
  5. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  6. Edinburgh: Mapping the City, Fleet & MacCannell.


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