BBABAZON. Barony [I.] jf, Edward Brabazon, s. and h. of Sir William B., I. 161G Waqr years Vice-Treasurer and sometime Lord Justice [I.], by Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Nicholas Clifford of Holme, sue. his Father 9 July 1552(a), being then in his 4th year ; P.C. [I.], HUM ; M.P. for co. Wicklow, 1585 ; Knighted by the Lord Dep. [I.] 1595 ; High Sheriff of co. Stafford, 1606( b ) ; M.P. for Bangor, 1613; one of the Council for Minister, 1615 ; was, on 19 July 1616, er. LORD BRABAZON, BARON OF ARDEEC), co. Louth [I.]. He m. Mary, da. of Thomas Smith, of Mitchani, Surrey. He d. 7 Aug. 1625, and was bur. at S. Katharine's, Dublin. Will, in which he styles himself " Sir Edward Brabazon, Knight, Lord Baron of Ardee " dat. 16 Feb. 1621/5 to 27 March 1625, pr, 23 April 1638. His widow d. 13 of the same month of Aug. 1625, and was bur. with him. TI. 1625. 2. William (Buabazon), Lord Brabazon, Baron of Abdeb [I.] s. and h.( d ) On 16 April 1627, he was cr. EARL OF MEATH p.]. See " Meath " Earldom of [I.], cr. 1627. BRABOURNE. Barony, j. Rt. Hon. Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Huge3- j 1880 sen, C) was, on 26 May 1880, cr. BARON BRABOURNE OF BRA- BOURNE, co. Kent. He was 6th s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward KNATCHnttLL, Bart., being the 1st s. of his 2nd wife, Fanny Catharine, da. of Edward f&UGHT of Godmersham Park, Kent. He was 6. 29 April 1829, at Mersham Hatch, Kent ; ed. at Eton, and at Mag. Coll. Oxford ; B.A. and M.A., 1850 ; on the death of his Father, 24 May 1S49, took the additional surname of Hurjcssen. M.P. for Sandwich, 1S57-S0 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1859-66 ; Under Sec. of State for Home Depart., May to July 1866, and again 1S68-71, and for the Colonies 1871-74, P.O., 1S73 ; and was raised to the Peerage, 18S0, as above. He m. 19 Oct. 1852, Anna Maria Elizabeth, yst. da. of Rev. Marcus Richard Southwell, M.A., Vicar of St. Stephens, Herts, by Cecilia Jane, da. of Alfred Schomberg Johnson, of Tanicrton Foliott, Devon. Family estates.— These, in 1SS3, consisted of 4173 acres in Kent, valued at £5,646 a year. Principal Residence. Smeeth Paddocks, near Ashford, Kent. BRACKLEY. Viscountcy. 2. Thomas (Egerton), " Baron of Ellesmere," was, on I. 161G. 7 Nov. 1616, cr. VISCOUNT BRACKLEY. He was illegit. s. of Sir Richard Eoebton of Ridley, co. Chester, by Alice Spauke of Bickerton, Spinster ; 4. 1540 ; ed. at Brasenose Coll., Oxford ; Barrister (Line. Inn) 1572, and Treasurer (Line. Inn) 1587 ; Solicitor Gen., 1581-92; M.P. for Cheshire, 15S5 S6 : Attomey-Geu., 1592-94 ; Chamberlain of Chester, 1594-1603; Knighted, by the Queen, 18 May 1594 ; Master of the Rolls 1594 to 1603, being, during part of that period, 6 May 1596 to 24 July 1603, Lord Keeper, having boon continued in that office (March to July 1603) by James I. ; P.C. 1596. On 18 Dec. 1598, by the devise of Richard Brereton, of Tatton, co. Chester (who had m. Dorothy, the legit, da. and (") See " Lodge " Vol. i, p. 266 note. The M.I. states (erroneously) his death to have been in 1548. CO He resided, when in England, at Nether Whitacre, co. Warwick, which ho had purchased in 1598, and which was sold by his s. and h. in 1630. CO See the long preamble to the patent in " Lodge,' ' Vol. i, p. 272. () See ante, u. i, p. 116, note " e" as to a claim of the Barony of Ardee [I.] by the heir yen. as against the heir male. (<0 Mary, da. (whose issue became sole heir) of William Western Hugessen, of Provender, Kent, m. 1780 Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bait., and was sue. in the Hugessen estates by her s. and h. (the father of Lord Brabourne), who devised them to his widow (his 2nd wife) and her issue, of which Lord Brabourue was the eldest son. B
