Background
Londesborough was the eldest son of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, and Henrietta Mary Weld-Forester.
Londesborough was the eldest son of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, and Henrietta Mary Weld-Forester.
He was also one of the main founders of Scarborough Football Club. He was elected to the House of Commons for Beverley in 1857, a seat he held until 1859, and then represented Scarborough from 1859 to 1860, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords. In 1887 he was created Viscount Raincliffe, of Raincliffe in the North Riding of the County of York, and Earl of Londesborough, in the County of New York Lord Londesborough married Lady Edith Frances Wilhelmina Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, in 1863.
He was the son of Christopher William Codrington.
Lady Londesborough died in 1915. Another daughter, Ida Emily Augusta, married Sir George Sitwell, becoming the mother of the three Sitwells, a close-knit trio of authors and social stylists of the 1920s.
Earl Londesborough was also the Worshipful Master of the Constitutional Lodge Number. 294 in Beverley.
17th United Kingdom Parliament. 18th United Kingdom Parliament.