Edward Carson (English politician)
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Edward "Ned" Carson was a British
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 Conservative
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 politician.
The Hon. Edward Carson was the youngest child of five children (born when his father was 66), and he was the only child to his fathers second wife Ruby Frewen, who his father had married following the death of the first Lady Carson.

Edward Carson was educated at Eton College
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 - as was his son (a barrister who lives in Henley-upon-Thames) and two of his grandsons.
Carson was a Member of Parliament
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 for the Isle of Thanet
Isle of Thanet (UK Parliament constituency)
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 from 1945, when aged 25, until he resigned from the House of Commons
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 for health reasons in 1953.
 
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