Edward Carson (Conservative politician)

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Edward Carson

| honorific-suffix =

| image =

| caption = Carson at a Duncairn unionist meeting

| birth_date ={{Birth date|df=yes|1920|02|17}}

| birth_name = Edward Carson

| birth_place = Mayfair, London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1987|03|06|1920|02|17}}

|death_place = East Sussex, England

|death_cause =

| office = Member of Parliament
for Isle of Thanet

| term_start = 5 July 1945

| term_end = 14 February 1953

| predecessor = Harold Balfour

| successor = William Rees-Davies

| parliament = United Kingdom

| party = Conservative

| spouse = {{marriage|Heather Sclater|1943|1987}}

| children = 1

| parents = Edward Carson

| nationality = British

| alma_mater = Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge

| nickname = Ned

}}

Edward Carson (17 February 1920 – 6 March 1987) was a British Conservative politician.

Personal life

The Hon. Edward Carson was the youngest child of Lord Carson's five children (born when his father was 66), and he was the only child of his father's second wife Lucy Frewen.

Carson married Heather, daughter of Frank Arthur Sclater, O.B.E., M.C., of Milford, Surrey, in 1943;Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 1985, pg 216Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1967, pg 291 their son, Edward Rory Carson, married Araminta, daughter of Sir John James MacDonald Horlick, 5th Baronet, in 1975.Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 1995, pg 453

Edward Carson was educated at Ludgrove School and then Eton College – as was his son (a barrister who lives in Henley-upon-Thames) and two of his grandsons – and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.{{cite book |last1=Barber |first1=Richard |title=The Story of Ludgrove |date=2004 |publisher=Guidon Publishing |location=Oxford |isbn=0-9543617-2-5 |page=189}}Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1967, pg 291

Edward Carson was for a time Librarian for H M Customs and Excise and also served in their legal department in later life. He was a published author and notably penned "The Ancient and Rightful Customs" in 1972 which was widely considered the most valued tome on the history of the UK's Customs and Excise department.

Member of Parliament

Carson was the member of parliament (MP) for the Isle of Thanet from 1945, when aged 25, until he resigned from the House of Commons for health reasons in 1953. He died in March 1987 at the age of 67.