Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

The Right Honourable The Viscount Hampden GCB, PC
Speaker of the House of Commons
In office 1872–1884
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir Evelyn Denison
Succeeded by	Sir Arthur Wellesley Peel
Personal details
Born	24 December 1814 (1814-12-24)
Died	14 March 1892(1892-03-14) (aged 77) Pau, France
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Eliza Ellice (1818-1899)

Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB, PC (24 December 1814 – 14 March 1892), was a British Liberal politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884.

Background and education

Brand was the second son of General Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, son of Thomas Brand and Gertrude Roper, 19th Baroness Dacre. His mother was Pyne, daughter of the Very Reverend the Hon. Maurice Crosbie, Dean of Limerick. He descended, indirectly, from John Hampden, the patriot. He was educated at Eton.

Political career

Brand entered parliament as a Liberal in 1852, and for some time was Chief Whip of his party. He was a Lord of the Treasury during the first Palmerston ministry, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury during the second. In 1872 he was elected speaker, and retained this post till February 1884. It fell to him to deal with the systematic obstruction of the Irish Nationalist Party, and his speakership is memorable for his action on 2 February 1881 in refusing further debate on W. E. Forster's Coercion Bill—a step which led to the formal introduction of the closure into parliamentary procedure. He was appointed a GCB in 1881 and on his retirement he was created Viscount Hampden, of Glynde in the County of Sussex. In 1890 he also succeeded in the barony of Dacre on the death of his brother.

Family

Lord Hampden married Eliza (1818-8 March 1899, Pelham House, Lewes), daughter of General Robert Ellice by his wife Eliza, illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, in 1838. They had five sons and five daughters. His second son the Hon. Thomas Seymour Brand (1847-1916) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and inherited Glynde Place, while his third son the Hon. Arthur Brand was also a Liberal politician. Lord Hampden died on the 14th of March 1892, aged 77, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his eldest son Henry. Lady Hampden died in March 1899.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Perfect Henry Fitzroy	Member of Parliament for Lewes 1852 – 1868 With: Henry Fitzroy 1852–1860 John George Blencowe 1860–1865 Lord Pelham 1865–1868	Succeeded by Lord Pelham
Preceded by Eliot Yorke Richard Young Lord George Manners	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1868 – 1884 With: Lord George Manners 1863–1874 Viscount Royston 1865–1874 Elliot Yorke 1874–1879 Benjamin Rodwell 1874–1881 Edward Hicks 1879–1884 James Redfoord Bulwer 1881–1884	Succeeded by Edward Hicks James Redfoord Bulwer Arthur Thornhill
Political offices
Preceded by Sir William Jolliffe, Bt	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1859–1866	Succeeded by Thomas Edward Taylor
Preceded by Sir Evelyn Denison	Speaker of the House of Commons 1872–1884	Succeeded by Arthur Wellesley Peel
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Chichester	Lord Lieutenant of Sussex 1886–1892	Succeeded by The Marquess of Abergavenny
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Viscount Hampden 1884–1892	Succeeded by Henry Robert Brand
Peerage of England
Preceded by Thomas Trevor	Baron Dacre 1890–1892	Succeeded by Henry Robert Brand