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Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn (20 February 1816 – 12 August 1854), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
Background
Born at Carlton Gardens, London, Jocelyn was the eldest son and heir apparent of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, and the Hon. Maria Frances Catherine, daughter of Thomas Stapleton, 12th Baron le Despencer.
Military career
Jocelyn served in the First Opium War as Military Secretary to Lord Saltoun. He published two works on his experiences of the conflict. In 1853 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the East Sussex Militia.
Political career
Jocelyn was Member of Parliament for King's Lynn from 1842 to 1854. He served under Sir Robert Peel as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control between 1845 and 1846.
Family
Lord Jocelyn married Lady Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper and Emily Lamb, in 1841. They had several children. In 1854, while his regiment, the East Essex Militia, was quartered in the Tower of London, he contracted cholera and died in London in August of that year, aged 38, predeceasing his father by 16 years. His eldest son Robert later succeeded in the earldom. Lady Jocelyn died in March 1880.
Works
Jocelyn, Robert (1841). Six Months with the Chinese Expedition; or, Leaves from a Soldier's Note-book (2nd ed.). London: John Murray.
References
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Biography at worldroots.com Archived 13 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Jocelyn
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- Sidney (nama keluarga)
- Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn
- Earl of Roden
- Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn
- Robert Jocelyn
- Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn
- Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden
- Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston
- Robert Jocelyn, 4th Earl of Roden
- Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden
