270 BRABAZON dat. 1 6 Feb. 1624/5 ^^ -7 Mar. 1625, pr. 1625 in Ireland, and 23 Apr. 1638 in London. His widow i/. 13 Aug. 1625, and was l>ur. with him.(') Fun. entry [I.]. II. 1625. 2. William (Brabazon), Lord Brabazon, Baron of Ardee [I.], s. and h.() On 16 Apr. 1627, he was cr. EARL OF MEATH [I.].(0 See "Meath," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1627. BRABOURNE BARONY. I. Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen,() 6th s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., I. 1880. being the ist s. of his 2nd wife, Fanny Catharine, da. of Edward Knight, of Godmersham Park, Kent. He was ^. 29 Apr. 1829, at Mersham Hatch, Kent; ed. at Eton, and at Magd. Coll.Oxford;B.A. andM.A. 1 850; Pres. of the Oxford Union Soc. i85o;(') on the death of his father, 24 May 1849, took the additional surname of Hugessen. M.P. (Liberal) Q for Sandwich 1857-80; a Lord of the Treasury 1859-66; Under Sec. of State for Home Depart. May to July 1866, and again 1868-71, and for the Colonies 1871-74; P.C. 24 iVIar. 1873. On 26 May 1880, he was cr. BARON BRABOURNE OF BRABOURNE, Kent. He m., istly, 19 Oct. 1852, at St. Stephens, Herts, Anna Maria Elizabeth, 2nd and yst. da. of the Rev. Marcus Richard Southwell, M.A., Vicar of St. Stephens, Herts, by Cecilia Jane, da. of Alfred Schomberg Johnson, of Tamerton Foliott, Devon. She ^. 26 May 1889, at 3 Queen Anne's Gate, and was i>ur. at Smeeth, Kent. Will pr. 26 June 1889, at £S9^- ^^ ^-i -"dly, 3 June 1890, in the chapel at Maxwelton, Glencairn, Ethel Mary, 3rd da. of Col. Sir George Gustavus Walker, K.C.B., of Crawfordton, co. Dumfries, by Anne Murray, da. of Admiral George Gustavus Lennock, of Brownrigg, in that co. He </. 6 Feb. 1893, aged 63, at Smeeth Paddocks, and was iur. at Smeeth. Will pr. at ^4,356 net. His widow living 191 1. (") "Without any funeral rites according to hir degree of honour, contrary unto the rights of the Nobility." V.G. (*>) See ante, vol. i, p. 189, note "a" as to a claim to the Barony of Ardee [I.] by the heir gen. as against the heir male. ("=) A King's Letter, dat. 8 Feb. 1626/7, ordered that he should be cr. Earl of Carlow. This was suppressed by another letter, 10 Mar. following, creating him Earl of Meath. V.G. {^) Mary, da. (whose issue became sole h.) of William Western Hugessen, of Provender, Kent, m., 1 780, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., 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 Brabourne was the eldest son. (') For a list of Peers who were Presidents of the Union Society of Oxford or of Cambridge, see vol. iv. Appendix F. V.G. (') He joined the Conservatives shortly after he had been made a peer on Gladstone's recommendation. He wrote some successful fairy tales and other popular children's books, V.G.
