page_title: Charles Lemon
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Lemon / Career
caption_attribution_description: Dignified house in Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall
context_page_description: Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet was a British Member of Parliament for several constituencies and a baronet.
context_section_description: Lemon served as Member of Parliament for Penryn in Cornwall from 1807 to 1812 and again from 1830 to 1831. In 1831, he became a Whig Member for Cornwall serving until the Reform Act 1832, whereafter he was Whig Member for West Cornwall until 1841. In 1842 he was again returned for West Cornwall, serving until 1857.
  In 1827 he was appointed Sheriff of Cornwall. In 1836, he headed the petitioners from the town of Falmouth, Cornwall to the Admiralty, seeking to prevent the removal of the Packet Service.
  In 1837, he was appointed to serve on the Transportation Committee of the House of Commons In 1852 he became deputy Warden of the Stannaries and funded the establishment of what is now the Camborne School of Mines. The name "Lemon" lives on in Truro as "Lemon Street" and "Lemon Quay", and a rhododendron Sir Charles Lemon was bred by him from seeds collected by Joseph Dalton Hooker.
  He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 23 May 1822. He was the second president (1836-8) of what is now the Royal Statistical Society. He spoke at the Newcastle Meeting of the British Association in 1838, during a meeting of the Statistical Section. From 1840-1856 served as President of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. He was President of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society from its foundation until his death. He was President of the Falmouth Board of Guardians from its foundation in 1837 until his death.
  He was on the committee of management of the South Western Railway in 1836.
  He was a notable Freemason in Cornwall, having been initiated into the Lodge of Love and Honour No. 75 in Falmouth in 1840, becoming its Worshipful Master in 1843, he was appointed the fifth Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Cornwall in 1844, after an interregnum of five years, following the death of his predecessor, Sir John St Aubyn, Bt in 1839.  He held this position until he resigned in 1863.
caption: House in Lemon Street, Truro.
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