Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage

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Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage PC JP DL (29 March 1840 – 10 August 1922) was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician.

The eldest son of George Fiesche Heneage, of Hainton Hall, Lincoln, and Frances Tasburgh, he was educated at Eton. He served with the 1st Life Guards from 1857 to 1863. In 1864 he succeeded to family estates and in the same year he married Lady Eleanor Cecilia Hare, daughter of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel.

He sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1866 to 1868 and for Grimsby from 1880 to 1886, and as Liberal Unionist member for that constituency from 1886 to 1892 and from 1893 to 1895. He served as Vice-Chairman of Lindsey Quarter Sessions. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1886 and Vice-President of the Committee of Agriculture in the same year. He retired from office and joined the Liberal Unionist Party in 1886 and was Chairman of Liberal Unionist Council from 1893 to 1898.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1886 and raised to the peerage as Baron Heneage in 1896. He also held office as High Steward of Grimsby.

Political offices
Preceded by Henry Chaplin	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1886	Succeeded by Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baron Heneage 1896–1922	Succeeded by George Heneage