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    Brassey was the second but eldest surviving son of Henry Brassey, third son of Thomas Brassey, and the nephew of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and...
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    Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe was the nephew of the first Earl. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918) Thomas Allnutt Brassey,...
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    Henry Arthur Brassey (14 July 1840 – 13 May 1891), DL, of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent and of Bath House, Piccadilly, London, was a British Member of...
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    Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (7 March 1870 – 22 October 1958), DL (known from 1922 to 1938 as Sir Henry Brassey, 1st...
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  • Bill Brassey, English bare-knuckle boxer Earl Brassey, title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Harold Brassey, British polo champion Henry Brassey (1840–1891)...
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    Henry Brassey and Albert Brassey. He was educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1864. Brassey...
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    Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible...
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    Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (1870–1935), who married Hilda Madeline Brassey, eldest surviving daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey, MP,...
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    Hilda Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond (category Brassey family)
    daughter of Henry Brassey, M.P. and Anna Harriet Stevenson (died 15 July 1898), and granddaughter of the railway pioneer Thomas Brassey. She married...
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    Spencer (1897–1946), who married Capt. Hon. Cecil Henry Brassey, son of Maj. Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, and Lady Violet Gordon-Lennox (daughter of Charles...
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    underwent a number of title changes. The Annual was started by Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, in 1886. Though often compared with Jane's Fighting Ships, the...
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    Elections and Electioneering 1695–1832 Oxford University Press, 1941 Pelling, Henry Mathison A Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910 (pp.96–97 & 106–124)...
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    Earl of March and Hilda Brassey. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. His elder brother Charles Henry of the Royal Fusiliers was...
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    Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt; 7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887) was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in...
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  • heritage of the series name dates to the Brassey's Naval Annual, begun by Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, in 1886...
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    Richmond (1870–1935), who married Hilda Madeline Brassey, eldest surviving daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey, MP, of Preston Hall, and had children. Lady Evelyn...
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    Cotterell, 4th Baronet), Lady Violet Gordon-Lennox (wife of Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, of Apethorpe), Lord Esmé Charles Gordon-Lennox, and Lord Bernard...
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    Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr, GBE, PC, JP, DL (20 June 1900 – 28 January 1976), styled Lord Buckhurst until 1915 (and...
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    contractor Thomas Brassey and his wife Maria, daughter of Thomas Harrison. The Liberal MP Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and Henry Brassey were his elder...
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  • daughters) of politician Henry Arthur Brassey (1840–1891), J.P., D.L., of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent. His grandfather, Thomas Brassey, was a civil engineer...
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    Brassey (c. 1880 – 1916), a polo champion, killed in action during WWI, a younger son of Henry Brassey, JP, DL, MP for Hastings, and brother of Henry...
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    Stamford, Lincolnshire, ENG), married Major Hon. Peter Brassey, son of Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey and had issue. Burghley House Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess...
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    difficulties and so they sold the house in 1904 to Henry Brassey. After World War II the Brassey family moved into the manor house and much of the adjoining...
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  • 2nd son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford 2nd son of Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre 2nd son of Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer...
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    his son, Henry Brassey who was MP for Sandwich, in 1870. On the death of Brassey's wife in 1898 the hall was inherited by their son, Henry Leonard Campbell...
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    George Pilcher Unionist Perth Noel Skelton Unionist Peterborough Sir Henry Brassey, Bt Unionist Petersfield William Graham Nicholson Unionist Plymouth...
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    Squadron. She was the yacht of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey until his death in 1918. His wife Anna Brassey wrote several popular books about their...
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    Member of Parliament for Peterborough In office 30 May 1929 – 7 October 1931 Preceded by Sir Henry Brassey, Bt Succeeded by David Cecil, Lord Burghley...
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  • Knatchbull-Hugessen Member of Parliament for Sandwich 1866 – 1868 With: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen Succeeded by Henry Brassey Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen...
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    before the outbreak of World War I. Lord Settrington married Hilda Madeline Brassey (1872 – 29 December 1971) on 8 June 1893; they had five children: Lady...
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