Christopher William Codrington

Sir Christopher William Codrington (12 March 1805 – 24 June 1864), of Dodington, Gloucestershire, was a British MP for East Gloucestershire between 7 August 1834 and 24 June 1864 and a landowner in Gloucestershire.

Codrington was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election on 7 August 1834, to replace Sir Berkeley Guise, 2nd Baronet (who had died 23 July 1834) as one of the two members for the East Gloucestershire parliamentary constituency. He was re-elected on 10 January 1835, on 5 July 1841, on 27 February 1847 (with his young brother-in-law the Marquess of Worcester), in 1852 again with Worcester. When Worcester's father died in 1853, he became 8th Duke of Beaufort and was translated to the House of Lords. His seat was then filled briefly by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 8th Baronet between 9 January 1854 and 29 November 1854 when Hicks-Beach died. A second by-election on 19 December 1854 resulted in the election of Robert Stayner Holford, a wealthy landowner and dilettante, as the second member. Codrington and Holford represented East Gloucestershire for the next ten years, until Codrington's own death.

Codrington was the eldest son of Christopher Bethell-Codrington (died 1843), of Doddington Park, Gloucestershire, since 1764, and the grandson of Edward Codrington. The elder Christopher had inherited Dodington Park from a relative who disinherited his son; he was required to change his name to Bethell-Codrington (thus his son is also sometimes known as Christopher Bethell-Codrington). His mother was the Hon. Harriet Foley (d. 1843) daughter of Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley of Kidderminster (1742–1793) by his wife Lady Henrietta Stanhope, herself daughter of the Earl of Harrington. Through his maternal grandmother, Codrington was thus connected to the earls of Sefton, the barons Penrhyn and landed gentry families.

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