Edward Cazalet (merchant)

Edward Cazalet
Born9 November 1827
Brighton, Sussex, England
Died21 April 1883 (aged 55)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Merchant and industrialist
SpouseElizabeth Sutherland Marshall
ChildrenWilliam Marshall Cazalet
Parent(s)Peter Clement Cazalet
Olympia Cazalet

Edward Cazalet (9 November 1827 – 21 April 1883), was a British merchant and industrialist.

Cazalet was born in Brighton on 9 November 1827, the youngest of seven children of Peter Clement Cazalet (1785–1859), merchant and Russian consul, and his wife, Olympia Cazalet (d. 1848).[1] The family descended from Huguenots who fled France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.[2][3][4]

On 15 March 1860, Cazalet married Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall (d. 1888), daughter and heir of William Marshall, doctor and Danish consul in Edinburgh.[1] Their only child was William Marshall Cazalet, born 1865.[1] In 1872, Cazalet purchased the estate of Fairlawne at Shipbourne in Kent; he also owned Villa Liserb at Cimiez in the south of France, which was often visited by Queen Victoria, who became godmother to his grandson, Victor Cazalet, born 1896.[3]

Cazalet died of typhus at the Hôtel d'Angleterre, Constantinople, on 21 April 1883, and was survived by his wife.[1] He was buried at St Giles's Church, Shipbourne, on 7 May 1883.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Howe, A. C. (2004). "Cazalet, Edward (1827–1883)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40812. Retrieved 1 April 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Who's Who. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1910. p. 337. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Cazalet Family Papers, MS 917". Catalogs Online Collection. Eton College. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Col. Victor A. Cazalet," New York Times, obituary, July 6, 1943