Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen
Politician
1835 – 1922
Who was Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen?
Herbert Thomas Knatchbull-Hugessen 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. His older brother was Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne. Knatchbull-Hugessen was educated at Eton College and then at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1859. He entered the British House of Commons in 1885, sitting for Faversham until 1895.
On 20 September 1883, he married Elizabeth Lewis Burton, daughter of Moses Burton, and had by her eight children, six sons and two daughters.
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- Born
- Dec 1, 1835
- Education
- Eton College
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Died
- May 15, 1922
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on July 23, 2013
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