Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen

Herbert Thomas Knatchbull-Hugessen (1 December 1835 – 15 May 1922)^[1] was a British Conservative politician.

Born at , he was the fourth son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet and his second wife Fanny Catherine Knight, niece of author Jane Austen and eldest daughter of Edward Austen-Knight.^[2] His older brother was Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne.^[2] Knatchbull-Hugessen was educated at Eton College and then at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1859.^[3] He entered the British House of Commons in 1885, sitting for Faversham until 1895.^[1] He was influential in the foundation of the modern Kent County Cricket Club in 1870, was on the club's committee and served as President for a year in the 1880s.^[4]^[5]

On 20 September 1883, he married Elizabeth Lewis Burton, daughter of Moses Burton, and had by her eight children, six sons and two daughters.^[6]

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^ ^a ^b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Faversham". Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b Debrett, John (1886). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. p. 82.
^ Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1914. p. 1179.
^ Moore D (1988) The History of Kent County Cricket Club, pp.31–32. London: Christopher Helm.
^ Fred ‘Nutty’ Martin – An Underrated Great, Kent Cricket Heritage Trust, 2018-10-11. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
^ "ThePeerage - Herbert Thomas Knatchbull-Hugessen". Retrieved 4 December 2006.

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New constituency	Member of Parliament for Faversham 1885 – 1895	Succeeded by Frederic Gorell Barnes

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