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Edward Henry à Court-Repington
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Edward Henry à Court-Repington (10 December 1783 – 22 September 1855), known as Edward Henry à Court until 1847 and sometimes spelled A'Court or A'Court-Repington, was a British Conservative and Tory politician, and navy officer.
Born as Edward Henry à Court, he was the son of Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet and Letitia, who was daughter of Henry Wyndham and sister to Henry Penruddocke Wyndham. À Court-Repington was also the brother of Charles Ashe à Court-Repington and William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury. While he never married, on 24 September 1847, by Royal Licence, he took the additional surname of Repington, in accordance with the will of his father's first cousin, Charles Edward Repington, who had gifted him £30,000 and Amington Hall in Tamworth, Staffordshire, upon his death in 1837.
After attending the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth in 1796, à Court-Repington began a long career in the Royal Navy, like his brother, Charles, serving in the Napoleonic Wars. He became a midshipman in 1800 and, on his first ship, served in the English Channel and off the coast of the Western Isles. In 1803, he commanded "a boat with only five hands", and succeeded in capturing a French schooner with a detachment of between 30 and 40 soldiers, alongside other passengers.
The following year, à Court-Repington was in joint command for a successful invasion force against Curaçao, and was promoted to lieutenant as a result. He was then in service for multiple occasions at the Jamaica station and Cape Cod. By 1808, he had been promoted to commander and, in 1811, to captain, first serving on in that year, and then of from 1813 to 1815 in the Mediterranean and then off Newfoundland and Halifax.
Upon the death of his father in 1817, he received a legacy of £4,000, became a half-pay officer, and took up residence with his brother, Charles, at Heytesbury in Wiltshire, where they both began to handle estate business on behalf of their brother, William, who was then an envoy to Naples.
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