Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

The Right Honourable The Viscount Hampden GCB PC


Speaker of the House of Commons
In office 1872–1884
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	Sir Evelyn Denison
Succeeded by	Sir Arthur Wellesley Peel
Personal details
Born	24 December 1814 (1814-12-24)
Died	14 March 1892(1892-03-14) (aged 77) Pau, France
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Eliza Ellice (1818-1899)

Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB PC (24 December 1814 – 14 March 1892), was a British Liberal politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884.

Background and education

Brand was the second son of General Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, who inherited the barony in 1851, second son of Thomas Brand and Gertrude Roper, 19th Baroness Dacre. His mother was Pyne, daughter of the Very Reverend the Hon. Maurice Crosbie, Dean of Limerick, son of the 1st Lord Brandon (Brandon's wife was a granddaughter of Sir William Petty, FRS). He descended, almost directly, from Colonel John Hampden, the patriot; his forebear Sir John Trevor III (1624–72) of Plas Teg, son of Sir John Trevor II of Plas Teg and Trevalun, by Anne daughter of Sir Edmund Hampden of Wendover, had married John Hampden's daughter Ruth, who was his first cousin. That is to say the 19th Baron Dacre (aka Gertrude Roper (d.1819) wife to Thomas Brand V (1749–94)) was the great-great-granddaughter of The Patriot.

He was educated at Eton and was a member of Brook's, Reform and Athenaeum clubs. Brand was in the Coldstream Guards for 12 years, from 20 April 1832 until 6 September 1844. He was their 963rd officer. His father, the General, had been their 690th officer serving 28 years between 1793 and 1821.

Political career

Hampden's autograph and photograph published by George Potter in 1891.

Brand entered parliament as a Liberal in 1852, sat for Cambridgeshire, and for some time was Chief Whip of his party. He was a Lord of the Treasury during the first Palmerston ministry, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury during the second. At some point he was Keeper of the Privy Seal to the Prince of Wales. In 1872 he was elected speaker, and retained this post till February 1884. It fell to him to deal with the systematic obstruction of the Irish Nationalist Party, and his speakership is memorable for his action on 2 February 1881 in refusing further debate on W. E. Forster's Coercion Bill—a step which led to the formal introduction of the closure into parliamentary procedure.^[1] He was appointed a GCB in 1881 and on his retirement he was created Viscount Hampden, of Glynde in the County of Sussex. In 1890 he also succeeded in the barony of Dacre on the death of his brother.

Estates

According to John Bateman, who derived his information from statistics published in 1873, Hon. Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand, G.C.B., of Glynde, Lewes, had 8,846 acres in Sussex (worth 8,121 guineas per annum).

Family

T.S. Brand

Lord Hampden married Eliza (1818-8 March 1899, Pelham House, Lewes), daughter of General Robert Ellice by his wife Eliza, illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, in 1838. They had five sons and five daughters. His second son the Hon. Thomas Seymour Brand (1847–1916) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and inherited Glynde Place, while his third son the Hon. Arthur Brand was also a Liberal politician. A daughter, Maud Bevan, was made a DBE for services to the Red Cross. Lord Hampden died on 14 March 1892, aged 77, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his eldest son Henry. Lady Hampden died in March 1899.

References

↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hampden, Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount". Encyclopædia Britannica 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 900.

Detail of Tissot's caricature of Mr. Speaker, in Vanity Fair, November 1872, No. 211, Statesman, No. 129.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Perfect Henry Fitzroy	Member of Parliament for Lewes 1852–1868 With: Henry Fitzroy 1852–1860 John George Blencowe 1860–1865 Lord Pelham 1865–1868	Succeeded by Lord Pelham
Preceded by Richard Young Lord George Manners Viscount Royston	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1868–1884 With: Viscount Royston 1868–1874 Lord George Manners 1868–1874 Elliot Yorke 1874–1879 Benjamin Rodwell 1874–1881 Edward Hicks 1879–1884 James Redfoord Bulwer 1881–1884	Succeeded by Arthur Thornhill James Redfoord Bulwer Edward Hicks
Political offices
Preceded by Sir William Jolliffe, Bt	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1859–1866	Succeeded by Thomas Edward Taylor
Preceded by Evelyn Denison	Speaker of the House of Commons 1872–1884	Succeeded by Arthur Wellesley Peel
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Chichester	Lord Lieutenant of Sussex 1886–1892	Succeeded by The Marquess of Abergavenny
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Viscount Hampden 2nd creation 1884–1892	Succeeded by Henry Robert Brand
Peerage of England
Preceded by Thomas Trevor	Baron Dacre 1st creation 1890–1892	Succeeded by Henry Robert Brand

Speakers of the House of Commons

House of Commons
of England

14th century	Hungerford De la Mare Pickering Guildesborough Waldegrave Pickering Bussy Cheney Doreward Savage Redford

15th century	Esturmy Tiptoft Chaucer Stourton Hungerford Chaucer Redman Beauchamp Flower Hunt Chaucer Baynard Russell Walton Vernon Tyrell Alington Bowes Burley Tresham Say Popham Oldhall Thorpe Charlton Wenlock Tresham Green Strangeways Wood Catesby Lovell Mordaunt Fitzwilliam Empson Drury Englefield

16th century	Dudley Sheffield Nevill More Audley Wingfield Rich Hare Moyle Baker Dyer Pollard Broke Higham Cordell Gargrave Williams Onslow Wray Bell Popham Puckering Snagge Coke Yelverton

17th century	Croke Phelips Crewe Richardson Crewe Finch Finch Glanville Lenthall Pelham Rous (Barebones Parliament) Widdrington (2nd Protectorate Parliament) Chute (3rd Protectorate Parliament) Long (3rd Protectorate Parliament) Bampfield (3rd Protectorate Parliament) Grimston Turnour Charlton Seymour Sawyer Gregory Williams Trevor Powle Foley Littleton

18th century	Harley Smith

House of Commons
of Great Britain

18th century	Smith R. Onslow Bromley Hanmer Compton A. Onslow Cust Norton Cornwall Grenville Addington

House of Commons
of the United Kingdom

19th century	Addington Mitford Abbot Manners-Sutton Abercromby Shaw-Lefevre Denison Brand Peel Gully

20th century	Lowther Whitley FitzRoy Brown Morrison Hylton-Foster King Lloyd Thomas Weatherill Boothroyd

21st century	Martin Bercow

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