| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, Earl of, 1797-1868 NRA: Brudenell James Thomas (1797-1868) 7th Earl of Cardigan Lieutenant General DNB: Brudenell, James Thomas, seventh earl of Cardigan (1797–1868), army officer LBT ID: LdCardi7 VIAF ID: 71361095 LOC ID: n50035122  | B/BAP:   1797-10-16 DIED: 1868-03-28  | 
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The man who led the charge of the Light Brigade; he was the son of the sixth earl (d.
                        1837), educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, and was a Tory MP for Marlborough
                        (1818-29), Fowey (1830-32), and North Northamptonshire (1832-37).  | |
 REFERENCES TO James Thomas Brudenell, seventh earl of Cardigan:  Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 2 April 1824 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P.     (London: John Murray, 1903)   Found 1:  
                                                         ¶ 1     Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 June 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P.     (London: John Murray, 1903)   Found 1:  
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