Background
Street Aubyn was the son of Sir Edward Street Aubyn, 1st Baronet, of Street Michael"s Mount, Cornwall, and his wife Emma (née Knollys), daughter of General William Knollys.
Street Aubyn was the son of Sir Edward Street Aubyn, 1st Baronet, of Street Michael"s Mount, Cornwall, and his wife Emma (née Knollys), daughter of General William Knollys.
He was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Street Aubyn was Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Bttn Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Cornwall, and Deputy Special Warden of the Stannaries. He was president of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall from 1891-1892.
In his original election address, according to The Times, he promised to vote foreign:
abolition of Church Rates
for the fullest extent of education
strict economy of the public service
admission of Jews to Parliament
abolition of the property qualification
for the ballot, in the event of any constituency needing the protection of it
Whilst representing West Cornwall, he was always elected unopposed.
At the 1885 general election, Street Aubyn was elected as Member of Parliament for Street Ives in a contest that was fiercely contested. "The fight was severe", according to The Times.
He disagreed with William Ewart Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and sat as a Liberal Unionist from 1886 to 1887. In the latter year Street Aubyn was raised to the peerage as Baron Street Levan, of Street Michael"s Mount in the County of Cornwall.
Lord Street Levan married Lady Elizabeth Clementina, daughter of John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend, in 1856.
Lady Street Levan died in 1910.
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Street Aubyn was elected Member of Parliament for Cornwall West as a Liberal in 1858, a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was replaced under the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885.