Monday, 14 October 2013
291 Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen
Constituency : Sandwich 1857-80
Edward was the son of a baronet who had twice served as Paymaster-General. He was educated at Eton and Oxford where he became President of the Union.
Edward served as a whip under Palmerston between 1859 and 1865. He was not enamoured of Russell and opened up negotiations with a view to joining the Tories but his loyalty was retained with the post of Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs. In 1866 he presided over a Treasury Commission on the Irish Constabulary. He was restored to this position by Gladstone in 1868 then moved to Under Secretary for the Colonies in 1871.
Edward lost his seat in the 1880 election and was packed off to the Lords as Baron Brabourne where he usually voted with the Conservatives. In 1884 he edited the first edition of the letters of Jane Austen (his mother's aunt ). He also wrote children's stories , publishing 13 books between 1869 and 1885.
He died in 1893 aged 63.
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