Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
1801–80
Polititian. Son of William Strutt. BA, Cambridge, 1823. Studied law at Lincoln’s Inn and the Inner Temple but was not called to the bar. MP for Derby, 1830–47; for Arundel, 1851; for Nottingham 1852–6. Created Baron Belper of Belper, Derbyshire, 1856. Honorary LLD, Cambridge, 1862. President, University College, London, 1871–9. FRS 1860.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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