Sir Theodore Henry Lavington Brinckman, 1st Baronet (17 January 1798 – 9 February 1880) was a British politician and baronet.
Born Theodore Broadhead, he was the son of
Theodore Henry Broadhead
Theodore Henry Broadhead (3 December 1767 – 12 December 1820) was an English army officer and politician.
Life
The son of Theodore Henry Broadhead the elder, whose original surname was Brinckman, and his wife Mary Bingley, he was educated at Et ...
and his wife Elizabeth Macdougall, daughter of William Gordon Macdougall. In 1842, by Royal Licence, he and his brothers resumed the surname Brinckman, which the family had carried before 1786 and their grandfather had changed.
In 1821 he entered the
British House of Commons
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in a by-election for
Yarmouth, the same constituency his father has represented before and was a
Member of Parliament
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until 1826. On 30 September 1831, Brinckman was created a
baronet
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, of Burton or Monk Bretton, in the County of York.
He married firstly Hon. Charlotte Godolphin Osborne, only daughter of the
1st Baron Godolphin on 29 August 1829. She died in 1838, and Brinckman married secondly Annabella Corbet, daughter of John Corbet on 18 February 1841.
[ He had five children by his first wife, a daughter and four sons.] They lived at St. Leonard's in Clewer
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near Windsor
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* Windsor, New South Wales
** Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area
* Windsor, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland
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in Berkshire
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. Brinckman died, aged 82 and was succeeded in the baronetcy
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by his oldest son Theodore
Theodore may refer to:
Places
* Theodore, Alabama, United States
* Theodore, Australian Capital Territory
* Theodore, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Banana, Australia
* Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Theodore Reservoir, a lake in Sask ...
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References
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1798 births
1880 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1820–1826
People from Windsor, Berkshire
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