Edward Carson (Conservative politician)

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; their son, Edward Rory Carson, married Araminta, daughter of Sir John James MacDonald Horlick, 5th Baronet, in 1975.

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.

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.