Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet FRS ( December 20, 1781 - May 24, 1849 in Mersham Hatch, Kent , England ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons between 1819 and 1845 , and twice, from 1834 to 1835 and again from 1841 to 1845, held the post of Paymaster General .
Life
Member of the House of Commons and Paymaster General
Knatchbull was the eldest son of Edward Knatchbull , who was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years and inherited the title of Baronet , of Mersham Hatch in the County of Kent, bestowed in 1641 in the Baronetage of England in 1789 , and his wife Mary Hugessen. After schooling, he began on February 5, 1800. studies at Christ Church of University of Oxford , and took after the lawyer's approval to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) from Lincoln's Inn in 1803 working as a lawyer on. A year earlier he became a Fellow of the Royal Society on May 6, 1802 .
When his father died on September 21, 1819, Knatchbull inherited his title of nobility as 9th baronet. On July 16, 1819, he was elected for the first time as a candidate for the Conservative Tories to the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Kent until July 25, 1831 . After he had not belonged to the House of Commons for about 18 months, he was re-elected to the House of Commons on December 10, 1832, where he represented the Kent Eastern constituency until 1845 .
On December 23, 1834, Knatchbull, who had already been appointed a member of the Privy Council on December 16, 1834 , was first appointed Paymaster General of the Forces by Prime Minister Robert Peel and held this position until April 8, 1835 He held the office of paymaster general of the armed forces again in the second Peel government from September 8, 1841 until his replacement by Bingham Baring on March 1, 1845.
Marriages and offspring
Edward Knatchbull was married twice and had three daughters and four sons.
On August 25, 1805, his first marriage was Annabella Christina Honywood, daughter of Sir John Honywood, 4th Baronet , who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons between 1785 and 1806. From this marriage came three daughters and one son. His eldest and only son from his first marriage, Norton Joseph Knatchbull, inherited the title of 10th baronet after his death. His first wife died on April 4, 1814.
Knatchbull married his second wife Fanny Catherine Knight on October 24, 1820, whose father Edward Knight was an older brother of the writer Jane Austen . There were three other sons from this marriage. The eldest son from this marriage was Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen , who between 1857 and 1880 was a member of the House of Commons and at times Undersecretary in the Home Office and in the Colonial Office , and in 1880 as Baron Brabourne , of Brabourne in the County of Kent, was raised to hereditary peer and thereby belonged to the House of Lords as a member. The second eldest son was the clergyman Reginald Bridges Knatchbull-Hugessen, while his fourth and youngest son was the politician Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen , who was a member of the lower house from 1885 to 1895 as a representative of the Conservative Party.
Web links
- Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet at the Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Knatchbull |
Knatchbull Baronet, of Mersham Hatch 1819-1849 |
Norton Knatchbull |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knatchbull, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knatchbull, Sir Edward, 9th Baronet (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1781 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1849 |
| Place of death | Mersham Hatch, Kent , England |