Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (29 December 1825 – 28 May 1899) was a British

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politician, and owner of

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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,

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, and sister of

Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison (2 September 1793 – 1872) of Copford Hall, Lord of the Manor of Copford was High Sheriff of Essex. He was born Fyske Goodeve Harrison on 2 September 1793 at Copford Hall, Essex, to John Haynes Harrison. John Hayne ...

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, 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. He served in the 1st Dragoon Guards 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 (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for East Essex (UK Parliament constituency), East Essex at the 1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 general election, and held the seat at two further elections before resignation from the British House of Commons, resigning from the British House of Commons, 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 Bowyer-Smyth baronets, Sir Edward Bowyer-Smith, 10th Baronet, of Hill Hall (Essex), 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. * Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise (1857–1935) was a prison administrator and founder of the Borstal system. * Captain Cecil Edward Ruggles-Brise (1859–88), Duke of Wellington's Regiment. * Reginald Francis Ruggles-Brise (1860–1920). * Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise, 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 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Sir Douglas Haig.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 (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 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge English justices of the peace {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1820s-stub