Sir Alexander Hargreaves Brown, 1st Baronet (11 April 1844 – 12 March 1922) was an English
Liberal Party, and later
Liberal Unionist, politician who sat in the
House of Commons from 1868 to 1906.
Family
Brown was the third son of Alexander Brown, eldest son of
Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet of Beilby Grange, Yorkshire and his wife Sarah Brown of New York. His nephew was
The Viscount Ruffside, the WWII-era Speaker of the House of Commons.
Brown married Henrietta Agnes Terrell Blandy, fifth daughter of Charles Blandy of Madeira in 1876. Their eldest son Captain Gordon Hargreaves Brown was killed in action in the
First World War. In 1910 Gordon Hargreaves Brown had married Edith Ivy Piggott, eldest daughter and co-heir of Admiral William Harvey Pigott. She assumed in 1925 the additional surname of Pigott for herself and her issue. Their son, the second Baronet, was killed in action in the
Second World War.
Career
He served in the
5th Dragoon Guards
The 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards was a British army cavalry regiment, officially formed in January 1686 as Shrewsbury's Regiment of Horse. Following a number of name changes, it became the 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) ...
from 1864 to 1866. He was
honorary colonel of the
Lancashire and Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery
The 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers (1st LAV), popularly known as 'Brown's Corps', was an auxiliary unit of the British Army raised in Liverpool in 1859. As the Lancashire & Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery in the Territorial Force it was r ...
and was
J. P. for
Lancashire and
Surrey
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.
Politics
At the
1868 general election, Brown was elected unopposed as one of the two
Members of Parliament (MPs) for the
borough of
Wenlock Wenlock may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Little Wenlock, a village in Shropshire
* Much Wenlock, a town in Shropshire
** (Much) Wenlock (UK Parliament constituency)
** Wenlock Priory, a 7th/12th-century monastery
* Wenlock Basin, a canal basi ...
in
Shropshire. He held the seat until it was abolished under the
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.
Brown was returned to the Commons at the
1885 general election as MP for the new
Wellington division of Shropshire.
He became a
Liberal Unionist in
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
, and held the seat until he stood down at the
1906 general election
The following elections occurred in the year 1906.
Asia
* 1906 Persian legislative election
Europe
* 1906 Belgian general election
* 1906 Croatian parliamentary election
* Denmark
** 1906 Danish Folketing election
** 1906 Danish Landsting ele ...
.
Brown was created a
Baronet of
Broome Hall in
Capel
Capel may refer to:
People
*Capell, surname, includes a list of people with the surnames Capel and Capell
*Capel (given name), includes a list of people with the given name Capel
Places England
*Capel, Kent, a village and civil parish near T ...
in the
County of Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant ur ...
on 5 January 1903.
He lived at Broome Hall
Holmwood, Surrey and died at the age of 77.
Arms
Notes
In the text above Broome Hall is situated in Holmwood, this is not accurate it is actually in Coldharbour in the parish of Capel.
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
External links
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1844 births
1922 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
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