Researching Edward Cadogan

Cadogan was a younger son of the 5th Earl Cadogan and his wife, Beatrix, a daughter of the 2nd Earl Craven. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford before training as a barrister.

From 1911 to 1921, he was Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons, James Lowther and also fought in World War I as a Major in the Suffolk Yeomanry. Lowther retired in 1921 and Cadogan was awarded the CB that year. A year later, he entered the Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading in 1922. He subsequently represented the seats of Finchley and Bolton and was a member of the Indian Statutory Commission from 1927 to 1930.

Cadogan was interested in penal reform, and particularly in the problems of young offenders. He chaired a committee which unanimously recommended abolishing the sentence of whipping (except in prisons), a provision adopted by Home Secretary James Chuter Ede in the Criminal Justice Act 1948. He was knighted in 1939 and fought with the RAF during World War II. He died unmarried and childless in 1962.

A grandson of Edward Cadogan, a noted rower, Cadogan made his first-class debut for the Europeans against the Parsees in 1929. This was the only first-class appearance Cadogan made for the Europeans.

In 1933 Cadogan made his first-class debut Hampshire against Derbyshire. Cadogan played two first-class matches for Hampshire in 1933, the second of which came against Somerset. In the same season Cadogan made his debut for the British Army against the touring West Indians

In 1934 Cadogan represented Hampshire in two first-class matches against Middlesex and Middlesex. In the County Championship match against Middlesex, Cadogan took his maiden and only five wicket haul with figures of 5/52.

The following season Cadogan played his final first-class match for Hampshire against the touring South Africans at the County Ground, Southampton. In his five first-class matches for Hampshire, Cadogan took 17 wickets at a bowling average of 23.82, with best figures of 5-52.

Also in the 1935 season, Cadogan made his debut for the British Army in a single first-class fixture against Cambridge University. In 1936, Cadogan played his final first-class match in the same fixture.

Cadogan fought during the Second World War, where he was injured during the Normandy campaign while serving with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Cadogan held the rank of colonel.

Cadogan died at Lymington, Hampshire on 7 February 1993.

Cadogan was born at Caerfyrddin Sain Pedr, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Colonel Edward Cadogan and his wife Virginia de Beaumassoir. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and was a rower at the university. In 1854 he partnered Walter Francis Short to win Silver Goblets at Henley. In 1855 the pair were runners up in Silver Goblets to A. A. Casamajor and Josias Nottidge.

Cadogan took holy orders and in 1872 became rector of Wicken, Northamptonshire and added a new wing at the Rectory at cost of £300 in 1873, not long after his arrival in the parish. Cadogan was concerned with the village school which, in 1875, he claimed that he found 'struggling into life and health'. Within three years Cadogan placed it on a sound footing and there were about 80 children on the books. He appealed for increased subscriptions and threatened a school board if these were not forthcoming. He offered to hand the management over to the subscribers or their elected representatives.

Cadogan killed himself at his rectory in Wicken on 16 April 1890, an inquest jury returned a verdict of "suicide whilst temporarily insane".

Cadogan married Alice Smith in 1856. Their daughter Blanche Ann married Walter William Carlile, MP for Buckingham. Their son, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Osbert Samuel Cadogan, 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, was killed in action on 30 October 1914. A grandson, Edward Henry Cadogan, played first-class cricket for Hampshire.