Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Brabourne (Lord), Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen
BRABOURNE (Lord), The Right Hon. Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, is a son of the late Right Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., of Mersham Hatch, Kent, many years M.P. for East Kent, and at one time Paymaster of the Forces under Sir Robert Peel, by his second marriage with Fanny Catharine, daughter of Mr. Edward Knight, of Godmersham Park, Kent, and of Chawton House, Hampshire. He was born at Mersham Hatch April 29, 1829, and educated at Eton and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1850. He entered the House of Commons as M.P. for Sandwich in April, 1857, and represented that constituency in the Liberal interest until his elevation to the peerage. He was a Lord of the Treasury from June, 1859, till May, 1866; Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from Dec., 1868, to Jan., 1871; and Under-Secretary for the Colonies from the last-named date to Feb., 1874. He was Chairman of the Treasury Commission which sat in Dublin in 1866 (the other members being Sir Richard Mayne, Sir Donald Macgregor, Col. Ward, and Mr. Law), to inquire into the condition of the Irish Constabulary, which at that time had no fewer than 1500 vacancies. The result of the investigation was an increase of their pay, and improvement of their condition, the force being thus restored to its former popularity. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen was sworn of the Privy Council March 24, 1873; and in May, 1880, he was created Lord Brabourne, of Brabourne, in the county of Kent. His lordship is a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for Kent, and he assumed the name of Hugessen by Royal licence. He married, in 1852, Anna Maria Elizabeth, younger daughter of the Rev. M. R. Southwell, vicar of St. Stephen's, St. Albans, by whom he has two sons and as many daughters. His publications are:—"Stories for my Children," 1869; "Crackers for Christmas," 1870; "Moonshine," 1871; "Tales at Tea-time," 1872; "Queer Folk," 1873; "Whispers from Fairyland," 1874; "River Legends, or River Thames and Father Rhine," 1874; "Higgledy-Piggledy; or, Stories for Everybody and Everybody's Children," 1875; "Uncle Joe's Stories," 1878; and "Ferdinand's Adventure," 1883.