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Earl Brassey was a title in the
Earl Brassey was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...
. It was created in 1911 for the Liberal politician and former Governor of Victoria, Australia, Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, eldest son of the railway magnate Thomas Brassey (1805-1870). He had already been created Baron Brassey, of Bulkeley in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1886, and was made Viscount Hythe, of Hythe in the County of Kent, at the same time as he was granted the earldom. These titles were also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The titles became extinct upon the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1919.
Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe was the nephew of the first Earl.
Earls Brassey (1911)
* Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918) * Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey (1863–1919)See also
* Baron Brassey of ApethorpeReferences
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brassey Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Earl Noble titles created in 1911 Noble titles created for UK MPs