Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne
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Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne PC
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 (29 April 1829 – 6 February 1893), was a British
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 Liberal
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 politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
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 under Lord Russell
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 in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone
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 from 1868 to 1871 and was also Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
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 under Gladstone from 1871 to 1874. In 1880 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Brabourne
Baron Brabourne
Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1880 for the Liberal politician Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, the second son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, of Mersham Hatch...

.

Background and education

Born Edward Hugessen Knatchbull, he was the younger son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, who twice served as Paymaster-General
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, and his second wife Fanny Catherine Knight, who was a niece of author Jane Austen
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Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

. In 1849 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hugessen, which was the maiden surname of his father's mother. Knatchbull-Hugessen was educated at Eton
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 and Magdalen College, Oxford
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, where he was President of the Oxford Union.

Political career

In 1857 Knatchbull-Hugessen was elected Member of Parliament
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 for Sandwich
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, a seat he would hold until 1880. He served as a Lord of the Treasury
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 under Lord Palmerston from 1859 to 1860, as Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Lord Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....

 in 1866 and under Gladstone
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 from 1868 to 1871 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
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 under Gladstone from 1871 to 1874. He was admitted to the Privy Council
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 in 1873 and raised to the peerage as Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent, in 1880.

Lord Brabourne edited the first edition of Jane Austen's letters, published in 1884. This edition included about two-thirds of her surviving letters, and was dedicated to Queen Victoria
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. He inherited the letters after his mother's death in December 1882.

Family

Lord Brabourne married twice and had six children. His first wife was Anna Maria Elizabeth Southwell. They hadfour children:
  • Hon. Katharine Cecilia Knatchbull-Hugessen (d. 21 March 1926).
  • Hon. Eva Mary Knatchbull-Hugessen (d. 23 October 1895).
  • Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne
    Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne
    Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne DL JP was a British peer and Liberal Party politician.-Background and education:...

     (5 April 1857-29 December 1909).
  • Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne
    Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne
    Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne was an English cricketer, and later a British peer....

     (27 November 1863-15 February 1933).


Lady Brabourne on 2 May 1889, and on 3 June 1890 Lord Brabourne remarried Ethel Mary Walker, daughter of Colonel Sir George Gustavus Walker
George Gustavus Walker
Sir George Gustavus Walker KCB JP DL was a Conservative Member of Parliament .The son of John Walker, of Crawfordton, and his wife, Jessy, he was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was the Conservative MP for Dumfriesshire, elected at the 1865 general election...

. They had two children:
  • Hon. Adrian Norton Knatchbull-Hugessen
    Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen
    Adrian Norton Knatchbull-Hugessen was a Canadian lawyer and senator.Knatchbull-Hugessen was born in Ashford, Kent, England on 5 July 1891, the son of Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne and Ethel Mary Walker, daughter of Sir George Gustavus Walker.He was educated at Eton...

    (5 July 1891-30 March 1976).
  • Hon. Alicia Mary Dorothea Knatchbull-Hugessen (18 February 1893-15 January 1974).


Lord Brabourne died in February 1893, aged 63, and was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, Edward.

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