LEMON

Sir Charles , 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon 1748–1824). b. White hall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow; M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P. Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S. 23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee 1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death; president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commi ioner for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842, and other pamphlets. d. Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb. 1868. bur. Mylor ch. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 314–15, 1267.