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CHARLES EDWARD SYDENHAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:EDWARD See also:SYDENHAM  POULETT-See also:THOMSON, 1St See also:BARON(1799-1841), See also:British statesman, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:September 1799, being the son of See also:John See also:Buncombe-Poulett-Thomson, a See also:London See also:merchant . After some years spent in his See also:father's business in See also:Russia and in London he was returned to the See also:House of See also:Commons for See also:Dover in 1826 . In 1830 he joined See also:Lord See also:Grey's See also:ministry as See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:board of See also:trade and treasurer of the See also:navy . A See also:free-trader and an See also:expert in See also:financial matters he was elected M.P. for See also:Manchester in 1832, a seat which he occupied for many years . He was continuously occupied with negotiations affecting See also:international See also:commerce until 1839, when he accepted the See also:governor-generalship of See also:Canada,where it See also:fell to his See also:lot to establish the See also:union of Upper and See also:Lower Canada . His services in establishing the See also:Canadian constitution were recognized in 184o by a K.C.B. and a See also:peerage . He took the See also:title of Baron See also:Sydenham of Sydenham in See also:Kent and See also:Toronto in Canada . He died unmarried on the 4th of September 1841, when his peerage became See also:extinct . His See also:Memoirs were published by his See also:brother, G . J . Poulett See also:Scrope, in 1843 .

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