Edmund Beckett Faber, 1st Baron Faber (9 February 1847 – 17 September 1920) was a British Conservative

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 politician.

Political career

Faber was Member of Parliament

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 for Andover

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 between a by-election in 1901 and the dissolution in 1905. On 29 December 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Faber, of Butterwick in the County of Lincoln.

Personal life

Faber died in Marylebone

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, London

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, on 17 September 1920, aged 73, and is buried there in Brompton Cemetery

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. The barony became extinct.