member of the 7th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1823–1826), ambassador of the United Kingdom to Sweden (1833–1835), ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands (1835–1851), ambassador of the United Kingdom to Württemberg (1828–1833)
Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe GCG (1790–1851) was a British politician and diplomat.
Disbrowe was Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor (1823–26), and later served in the British diplomatic corps in positions in Switzerland, Russia, Sweden and other postings. He was British Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1836 to 1851, where he died at the Hague. His body was returned to England on the ship HMS Lightning. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Derbyshire.[1]
Disbrowe's eldest daughter Charlotte, who lived at the family home in Derbyshire, became a writer of note, publishing two volumes recounting her father's diplomatic service, with particular attention to his time in Russia. Disbrowe's younger daughter Jane Harriet married Henry Christopher Wise of Woodcote House, Leek Wootton, Warwickshire, Member of Parliament.[4] Wise was the great-great-grandson of Henry Wise, gardener to Queen Anne, who laid out Kensington Gardens.[5]