Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, styled Viscount Valletort between 1818 and 1837, was a British peer and politician. In 1848 he witnessed the Sicilian revolution in Palermo where he had arrived on 10 November with his family including his niece Annie MacDonald. He wrote an eyewitness account of the revolution which was published in The Times. He served as a mediator between the Neapolitan and pro-independence forces.
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- politician
- Position held
- member of the 6th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 7th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 9th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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