Joseph Strutt (MP)

Joseph Holden Strutt (21 November 1758 – 18 February 1845), was a British soldier and long-standing Member of Parliament.

Strutt was the member of a family that had made their fortune from its milling business in Maldon and Chelmsford in Essex and which had acquired the estate of Terling Place in Terling, Essex. He served in the Army and achieved the rank of Colonel, and also sat as Member of Parliament for Okehampton from 1790 to 1826 and for Maldon from 1826 to 1830.

He married Lady Charlotte FitzGerald, daughter of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, and Lady Emily Lennox, in Toulouse on 23 February 1789. Throughout his life Strutt refused all honours offered to him. However, when he was offered a peerage in 1821 for his services in the Army and Parliament he proposed that the honour be given to his wife Charlotte, who was elevated to the peerage in her own right as Baroness Rayleigh. Lady Rayleigh died in 1836. Strutt survived her by nine years and died in Bath in February 1845, aged 86. His grandson John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, became a noted mathematician and physicist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

See also

• Baron Rayleigh

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Ducal House of Leinster

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Joseph Strutt

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Strutt Sir Peter Parker	Member of Parliament for Maldon 1790–1826 With: Charles Callis Western 1790–1806 Benjamin Gaskell 1806–1807 Charles Callis Western 1807–1812 Benjamin Gaskell 1812–1826	Succeeded by George Mark Arthur Way Allanson-Winn Thomas Barrett-Lennard
Preceded by Lord Glenorchy William Henry Trant	Member of Parliament for Okehampton 1826–1830 With: Sir Compton Domvile	Succeeded by Lord Seymour George Agar-Ellis