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The Right Honourable
The Lord Brabourne
PC
"A promising apprentice". Knatchbull-Hugessen M.P. as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, June 1870.
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
In office
25 May 1866 – 26 June 1866
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterThe Earl Russell
Preceded byHon. Thomas Baring
Succeeded byThe Earl Belmore
In office
10 December 1868 – 11 January 1871
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded bySir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bt
Succeeded byGeorge Shaw-Lefevre
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office
14 January 1871 – 17 February 1871
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded byWilliam Monsell
Succeeded byJames Lowther
Personal details
Born29 April 1829
Died6 February 1893 (1893-02-07) (aged 63)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)(1) Anna Maria Elizabeth Southwell (d. 1889)
(2) Ethel Mary Walker
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne PC (29 April 1829 – 6 February 1893), known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department under Lord Russell in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 and was also Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Gladstone from 1871 to 1874. In 1880 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Brabourne.

Background and education

Born Edward Hugessen Knatchbull, he was the younger son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, who twice served as Paymaster-General, and his second wife Fanny Catherine Knight, who was a niece of author Jane Austen. In 1849 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Hugessen, which was the maiden surname of his father's mother. Knatchbull-Hugessen was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union.

Political career

In 1857 Knatchbull-Hugessen was elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich, a seat he would hold until 1880.[1] He served as a Lord of the Treasury under Lord Palmerston from 1859 to 1860, as Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Lord Russell in 1866 and under Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Gladstone from 1871 to 1874.[2] He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1873[3] and raised to the peerage as Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent, in 1880.[4]

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. He inherited the letters after his mother's death in December 1882.[5] He also wrote short stories, one of which was published in The Gentlewoman in December 1891.[6]

He died on 6 February 1893 at Smeeth Paddocks, and was buried at Smeeth, Kent, on 9 February.[7]

Family

He was twice married: first, on 19 October 1852, at St. Stephen's, Hertfordshire, to Anna Maria Elizabeth, younger daughter of the Rev. Marcus Richard Southwell, vicar of that church, by whom he had two sons and two daughters:[7]

Lady Brabourne died on 2 May 1889, and on 3 June 1890 Lord Brabourne remarried Ethel Mary Walker, daughter of Colonel Sir George Gustavus Walker.[7] They had two children:

Lord Brabourne was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, Edward.

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
  2. ^ Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
  3. ^ "No. 23961". The London Gazette. 25 March 1873.
  4. ^ "No. 24847". The London Gazette. 25 May 1880.
  5. ^ Austen, Jane & Lord Brabourne, Letters of Jane Austen; Bentley, 1884 (reissued by Cambridge University Press 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00338-4)
  6. ^ 'Christmas Numbers' in The Times, issue 33508 dated 15 December 1891, p. 6
  7. ^ a b c Rae 1901.
Attribution

Wikisource This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rae, William Fraser (1901). "Knatchbull-Hugessen, Edward Hugessen". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Sandwich
1857–1880
With: Lord Clarence Paget 1857–1866
Charles Capper 1866–1868
Henry Brassey 1868–1880 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
May–June 1866 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
1868–1871 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
1871–1874 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Brabourne
1880–1893 		Succeeded by

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