Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet (22 May 1758 – 1 September 1819)[1] was a British politician and baronet.
Background
He was the only surviving son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet and his wife Grace Legge, second daughter of William Legge.[2] In 1789, he succeeded his father as baronet.[3] Knatchbull was educated at Tunbridge and Winchester School.[4] He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1777 and received a Doctorate of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in 1810.[5]
Career
Knatchbull was High Sheriff of Kent in 1785.[6] He entered the British House of Commons in 1790, sitting for Kent until 1802.[7] He represented the constituency as Member of Parliament (MP) again from 1806 until his death in 1819.[7]
Family
In July 1780, he married firstly Mary Hugessen, daughter of William Western Hugessen, and had by her a son and two daughters.[8] She died in 1784 and Knatchbull married secondly Frances Graham, daughter of John Graham on 2 June 1785.[9] They had nine children, five sons and four daughters.[3] After her death in 1799, Knatchbull married finally Mary Hawkins, daughter of Thomas Hawkins at St George's, Hanover Square on 13 April 1801.[5] By his third wife he had seven children.[3]
Knatchbull died aged 61, after a short illness, at his son's house at Provender, Kent and was buried in Mersham.[4] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Edward.[8] A younger son was probably John Knatchbull, a naval captain and convict found guilty of murder in 1844; who was one of the earliest to raise in a British court the plea of moral insanity (unsuccessfully).[10]
References
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Retrieved 9 July 2009.
- ^ Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 402.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 46.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ a b Sylvanus, Urban (1819). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: John Nichols and Son. p. 371.
- ^ a b "ThePeerage - Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt". Retrieved 19 February 2007.
- ^ Hasted, Edward (1798). The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Vol. vol. VII (2nd ed.). Canterbury: W. Bristow. p. 597.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Kent". Retrieved 9 July 2009.
- ^ a b Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. pp. 158–159.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ The London Magazine. Vol. part I. London: R. Baldwin. 1785. p. 461.
- ^ "Knatchbull, John (1792-1844)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 1967. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
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