Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (29 December 1825 – 28 May 1899) was a British
Conservative politician, and owner of
Spains Hall
Spains Hall is an Elizabethan country house near Finchingfield in Essex, England. The building has been Grade I listed since 1953.
The hall is named after Hervey de Ispania, who held the manor at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. From th ...
,
Essex.
Early life
Samuel Ruggles-Brise was the eldest son of John Ruggles (1782–1852) of Spains Hall, who adopted the additional surname of Brise, and Catherine (died 1877), daughter of John Haynes Harrison,
Lord of the Manor of
Copford, and sister of
Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison,
High Sheriff of Essex, who adopted the additional surname of Fiske. John Ruggles was a barrister and High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1829. Samuel was educated at
Eton College and
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...
.
He served in the
1st Dragoon Guards
The 1st King's Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army. The regiment was raised by Sir John Lanier in 1685 as the 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse, named in honour of Queen Mary, consort of King James II. It was renamed the 2nd K ...
and later was Colonel Commandant of the
West Essex Militia (1853–89).
[''Burke's Landed Gentry'']
Political career
He was elected as a
Member of Parliament for
East Essex at the
1868 general election, and held the seat at two further elections
before
resigning from the
House of Commons on 14 August 1883 by becoming
Steward of the Manor of Northstead.
Family
In 1847, Samuel Ruggles-Brise married Marianne Weyland Bowyer-Smith, daughter of
Sir Edward Bowyer-Smith, 10th Baronet, of
Hill Hall, Essex. They had five sons and seven daughters:
[
* Archibald Weyland Ruggles-Brise (1853–1939), inherited Spains Hall and was father of ]Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet
Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet (19 September 1882 – 12 May 1942) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Early life
The son of Archibald Weyland Ruggles Brise (1857-1939), he was born at Westminster, London, in Se ...
.[
* Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise (1857–1935) was a prison administrator and founder of the ]Borstal
A Borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India, such a detention centre is known as a Borstal school.
Borstals were run by HM Prison Service ...
system.
* Captain Cecil Edward Ruggles-Brise (1859–88), Duke of Wellington's Regiment.
* Reginald Francis Ruggles-Brise (1860–1920).
* Major General Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise (1864–1927), Grenadier Guards, fought in the Second Boer War and World War I, ending his career as Military Secretary to Sir Douglas Haig
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War, he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until ...
.[Obituary, ''Times'' (London) 27 June 1927.]
* Adella Marianne Ruggles-Brise (died 1930).
* Edith Cecilia Ruggles-Brise (died 1931), married Captain James Angernon Ind (died 1915).
* Constance Sophia Ruggles-Brise (died 1928), W. Hunter Rodwell.
* Alice Catherine Ruggles-Brise (died 1911).
* Rosalind Letitia Ruggles-Brise (died 1930), married Edward Kensit Norman (died 1902).
* Florence Ada Ruggles-Brise.
* Beatrice Georgiana Ruggles-Brise married Henry Jervis-White-Jervis
Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (1825 – 22 September 1881) was a British army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1880.
Jervis-White-Jervis was the third son of Sir Henry Meredith Jervis White-Jervis, 2 ...
(died 1934)
Notes
References
* ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', 15th Edn, London, 1937.
* ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953.
* ''Who Was Who, 1916–1928''.
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1825 births
1899 deaths
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Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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