Henry Robert Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, (2 May 1841 – 22 November 1906) was

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from 1895 to 1899.

Background

Hampden was the son of Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden. He succeeded his father as second Viscount and twenty-fourth Baron Dacre on 14 March 1892.

Career

Hampden was Member of Parliament (MP) for

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1868–1873 and for

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1880–1886. He stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal Unionist candidate for Cardiff in 1886. He arrived in

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on 21 November 1895, and served an uneventful term as Governor of New South Wales. He resigned his post before the conclusion of his intended term effective from 1 March 1899, citing private interests. He left Sydney by train on 5 March 1899, joining the steamer Oruba in Melbourne the following day. He was the penultimate Governor of New South Wales before the

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Family

Lord Hampden married, firstly, on 21 January 1864 Victoria Alexandrina Leopoldine Van de Weyer, daughter of the Belgian ambassador

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, but she died the following year on 20 July 1865. Lord Hampden married, secondly, Susan Henrietta Cavendish (1846–1909), daughter of Lord George Cavendish and Louisa Lascelles, on 14 April 1868. They had the following children: * Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden (1869–1958) married Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott (1875–1951), daughter of William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott and Louisa Jane Hamilton, on 29 April 1899; they had eight children. * Sir Hubert George Brand (1870–1955) married Norah Conyngham Greene (d. 1924), daughter of Sir William Conyngham Greene and Lady Lily Stopford on 28 January 1914; they had two daughters: Elizabeth Norah Brand (b. 1915) and Mary Kathleen Brand (b. 1921). * Richard Brand (1871–1880) died at age eight. * Margaret Brand (1873–1948) married Algernon Francis Holford Ferguson (1867–1943) on 21 April 1897 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney; had five children: Victor John Ferguson (b. 1898), Andrew Henry Ferguson (b. 1899), George Algernon Holford Ferguson (b. 1905), Margaret Susan Ferguson (b. 1906), and Jane Charlotte Ferguson (b. 1912). Through her son Andrew, she is the great-grandmother of

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. * Alice Brand (1877–1945) * Dorothy Louisa Brand (1878–1958) married Percy Henry Guy Feilden (1870–1944) on 11 November 1902; they had three children: Randle Guy Feilden (1904–1981), Cecil Henry Feilden (b. 1907) and Dorothy Priscilla Feilden (b. 1909). * Robert Henry Brand, 1st Baron Brand married Phyllis Langhorne (d. 20 January 1937) on 9 June 1917; they had three children: Virginia Brand (b. 1918), Dinah Brand (b. 1920), and Robert James Brand (b. 1923). * Roger Brand (1880–1945) married Muriel Hectorina Lilian Montgomery (d. 1988) on 21 November 1913; they had one child: Patricia Helen Winifred Brand (b. 1926). * Geoffrey Brand (1885–1899) died at age 13.

Legacy

Hampden Bridge in Kangaroo Valley, NSW is named for him. He died in London in 1906.

References

thePeerage.com

External links

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