695 Henry Brassey

Constituency : Sandwich  1868-85

Henry  reclaimed  Sandwich, lost  in  1866 , for  the  Liberals.

Henry  was  the  son  of  the  railway  contractor  Thomas   Brassey   and  brother  of  the   MP  for  Hastings, Thomas  Brassey.  He  was  educated  at  Oxford. He  married  George  Stevenson's  daughter.

Henry   was  a  keen  cricketer.


He  died  in  1891  aged  50.  His  son  Henry  became  a  Conservative  MP.