692 Henry Robert Brand

Constituency : Hertfordshire  1868-74 , Stroud  1874-5, 1880-86

Henry  captured  another  of  the  Hertfordshire  seats  for  the  Liberals.

Henry  was  the  son  of  Henry  Brand, Palmerston's  chief  whip , MP  for  Cambridgeshire and  future  Speaker. He  was  a  captain  in  the  Coldstream  Guards.

Gladstone  appointed  Henry  Surveyor-General  of  the  Ordnance  in  1882. He  held  the  post  until  1886. Henry  was  an  old  school  Whig. He  advocated  coercion  in  Ireland  during  a  dinner  at  Brooks  in  1886.

Henry  succeeded  to  his  father's  title  of  Viscount  Hampden  in  1892.

 Henry   was  appointed  Governor  of  New  South  Wales  in  1895 and  served  four  uneventful  years. He  resigned  before  his  term  was  up  citing  private  interests.

Henry  married  a  Cavendish. He  is  a  direct  ancestor  of  Sarah  Ferguson,

He  died  in  1906  aged  65.