Edward Goulding, 1st Baron Wargrave

Goulding was the son of William Goulding by his second wife Maria Heath Manders, daughter of Edward Manders, of Dublin, Ireland. Sir William Goulding, 1st Baronet, was his elder brother. He was born in Ireland and educated at Clifton College and St John's College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1887. ==Political career==

Goulding was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Devizes division of Wiltshire. He was re-elected in 1900, and held the seat until the 1906 general election, when he stood unsuccessfully in Finsbury Central. He returned to Parliament two years later, when he was elected as MP for the borough of Worcester at by-election in February 1908, a seat which had been left vacant for two years after a Royal Commission concluded in 1906 that there had been extensive corruption in the borough at the 1906 general election. and December 1910 elections, and was returned as a Coalition Unionist in 1918. He was created a Baronet, of Wargrave Hall in the County of Berks, in 1915 and sworn of the Privy Council in 1918. He stood down from the Commons at the 1922 general election, Apart from his political career he was also chairman of Rolls-Royce Limited. ==Personal life==

Lord Wargrave lived at Wargrave Hall in Berkshire and the then Shiplake Court in Oxfordshire. He died childless in July 1936, aged 73. The baronetcy and barony died with him. ==Arms==

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