Joseph Strutt (MP)
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Joseph Holden Strutt was a British
soldier and long-standing Member of Parliament
.
Strutt was the member of a family that had made their fortune from its milling business in Maldon
and Chelmsford
in Essex
and which had acquired the estate of Terling Place
in Terling
, Essex. He served in the Army and achieved the rank of Colonel
, and also sat as Member of Parliament for Okehampton
from 1790 to 1826 and for Maldon
from 1826 to 1830.
He married Lady Charlotte FitzGerald
, daughter of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
, and Lady Emily Lennox
, in Toulouse
on 23 February 1789. Throughout his life Strutt refused all honours offered to him. However, when he was offered a peerage in 1821 for his services in the Army and Parliament he proposed that the honour be given to his wife Charlotte, who was elevated to the peerage in her own right as Baroness Rayleigh. Lady Rayleigh died in 1836. Strutt survived her by nine years and died in Bath in February 1845, aged 86. His grandson John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, became a noted mathematician and physicist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.
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soldier and long-standing Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
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Strutt was the member of a family that had made their fortune from its milling business in Maldon
Maldon, Essex
Maldon is a town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon district and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation.Maldon is twinned with the Dutch town of Cuijk...
and Chelmsford
Chelmsford
Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England and the principal settlement of the borough of Chelmsford. It is located in the London commuter belt, approximately northeast of Charing Cross, London, and approximately the same distance from the once provincial Roman capital at Colchester...
in Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
and which had acquired the estate of Terling Place
Terling Place
Terling Place is the Georgian family seat of Baron Rayleigh and the largest house in the village of Terling. It was built between 1772 and 1777 to the designs of John Johnson. The wings, a new porch, a two-storey Saloon and a Library were added between 1818 and 1824...
in Terling
Terling
Terling is a village in the county of Essex, England, between the town of Witham and the villages of Great Leighs and Hatfield Peverel. The village was mentioned in the Domesday book...
, Essex. He served in the Army and achieved the rank of Colonel
Colonel
Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...
, and also sat as Member of Parliament for Okehampton
Okehampton (UK Parliament constituency)
Okehampton was a parliamentary borough in Devon, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in 1301 and 1313, then continuously from 1640 to 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
from 1790 to 1826 and for Maldon
Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)
Maldon is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election...
from 1826 to 1830.
He married Lady Charlotte FitzGerald
Charlotte Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh
Charlotte Mary Gertrude Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh , known as Lady Charlotte FitzGerald from 1758 to 1789 and as Lady Charlotte Strutt from 1789 to 1821, was a British peeress....
, daughter of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, etc. PC , styled Lord Offaly until 1744 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1744 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kildare between 1761 and 1766, was an Irish nobleman, soldier and politician.-Background:Leinster was the son of Robert...
, and Lady Emily Lennox
Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster
Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster , known before 1747 as Lady Emily Lennox, from 1747 to 1761 as The Countess of Kildare and from 1761 to 1766 as The Marchioness of Kildare, was the second of the famous Lennox sisters, daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and illegitimately...
, in Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
on 23 February 1789. Throughout his life Strutt refused all honours offered to him. However, when he was offered a peerage in 1821 for his services in the Army and Parliament he proposed that the honour be given to his wife Charlotte, who was elevated to the peerage in her own right as Baroness Rayleigh. Lady Rayleigh died in 1836. Strutt survived her by nine years and died in Bath in February 1845, aged 86. His grandson John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, became a noted mathematician and physicist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.