Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden (* December 24, 1814 - March 14, 1892 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and speaker of the House of Commons .

family

Brand was descended on his mother's side from the patriot John Hampden , a leader of the bourgeois revolution during the English Civil War (1642–1649) . He himself was the son of Colonel Henry Otway Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre.

Political career

MP and member of government

He began his political career in 1852 with the election to the House of Commons. There he initially represented the interests of the Liberal Party of the Lewes constituency until 1865 . He then represented the Cambridgeshire constituency in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1884 .

From April 1855 to March 1858 he was Lord of the Treasury in the first cabinet of Viscount Palmerston and thus one of the representatives of the Lord High Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

From June 24, 1859 to July 12, 1866 he was Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury and at the same time Chief Whip of his party. As a kind of parliamentary group manager, he had both a seat and a vote in the cabinets of the then Prime Ministers Viscount Palmerston (1859-1865) and Earl Russell (1865-1866).

Speaker of Parliament and member of the House of Lords

1872 he was appointed as successor to John Evelyn Denison spokesman ( Speaker elected) of the House of Commons. He held this office until his resignation in February 1884. During his tenure, the Irish movement of the Home Rule League , which was renamed the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1882 under the chairmanship of Charles Stewart Parnell, grew stronger. Arthur Wellesley Peel was succeeded as Speaker of the House of Commons .

After his resignation, according to an old tradition, he was raised to the hereditary nobility . He bore the title of Viscount Hampden and belonged by the upper house ( House of Lords on). Between 1886 and 1892 he was also as Lord Lieutenant representative of Queen Victoria in the county of Sussex . In 1890 he also inherited the title of Baron Dacre .

The title was inherited by his son Henry Robert Brand, who was Governor of New South Wales from 1895 to 1902, when he died in 1892 .

Web links

• Biography
• Sir Henry Brand at Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Hampden 1884-1892	Henry Brand
Thomas Trevor	Baron Dacre 1890-1892	Henry Brand