Edward’s family moved to Rutland in 1972. He attended Langham primary and Oakham School before reading History at Peterhouse, Cambridge. His first political experience was manning a Committee Room in Oakham for Kenneth Lewis, MP for Rutland & Stamford, in the 1979 General Election. His interest in politics continued at university where he was Chairman of the Tory Reform Group, Deputy Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, Secretary of the Student Union and on the Standing Committee of the Union Society.
After leaving university, Edward spent the next 10 years focussed on his career and lived for most of the 1990s in the Far East. Returning to the UK, he served as Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Vauxhall Conservative Association for eight years from 1998 to 2006. In that time, he was also the Conservative Party’s parliamentary candidate for Leyton & Wanstead in the 2001 General Election and the candidate for Vauxhall in the 2005 General Election. Edward was an officer and Deputy Chairman of the London South Area from 2003 to 2010 and Deputy Chairman of the Party in London in 2013 and 2014.
Edward’s home in Rutland is in Exton, where his wife, Kiloran, is the County Council. He is active in the local community as Church Warden and treasurer of the parish church, treasurer of the local village hall, treasurer of the Rutland Local History & Record Society and a member of the Board of The Oakham School Foundation. He is a former Governor of the Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust and has also served as a primary school governor.
He was appointed Deputy Chairman (Political) of the Rutland & Stamford Conservative Association in May 2024.