Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen

Herbert Thomas Knatchbull-Hugessen (1 December 1835 – 15 May 1922)[1] was a British Conservative politician.

Born at Mersham Hatch, he was the fourth son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet and his second wife Fanny Catherine Knight, niece of author Jane Austen and eldest daughter of Edward Austen-Knight.[2] His older brother was Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne.[2] Knatchbull-Hugessen was educated at Eton College and then at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1859.[3] He entered the British House of Commons in 1885, sitting for Faversham until 1895.[1]

On 20 September 1883, he married Elizabeth Lewis Burton, daughter of Moses Burton, and had by her eight children, six sons and two daughters.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Faversham". Retrieved 29 August 2009.
  2. 1 2 Debrett, John (1886). Robert Henry Mair, ed. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. p. 82.
  3. ↑ Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1914. p. 1179.
  4. ↑ "ThePeerage - Herbert Thomas Knatchbull-Hugessen". Retrieved 4 December 2006.

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency Member of Parliament for Faversham
1885 – 1895 		Succeeded by
Frederic Gorell Barnes


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