Background
Descended from the Long family of Wiltshire, he was born at Corhampton, Hampshire, the only son of John Long and Ellen Hippesley Trenchard.
justice student of Lincolns Inn
Descended from the Long family of Wiltshire, he was born at Corhampton, Hampshire, the only son of John Long and Ellen Hippesley Trenchard.
He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford where he gained a Bachelor in 1809, and Master of Arts in 1812.
He was a student of Lincolns Inn in 1809. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1815 and was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1824. On the death of his father in 1797 he inherited the estate of Preshaw at Upham with its Elizabethan Mansion, surrounded by approximately 1,670 acres (68 km2), and in 1810 commissioned John Nash to make alterations to the house.