Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre (25 March 1774 – 21 March 1851) was a British peer and Whig politician.

Background

Dacre was the eldest son of Thomas Brand, of The Hoo,

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, and Gertrude, 19th Baroness Dacre, daughter of the Hon. Charles Roper.

Military career

He raised and commanded the Kimpton Volunteer Rifles, a part-time unit of the Volunteer Corps formed in 1803. In 1808 the volunteers were replaced by the Local Militia, and Brand commanded the Midland Battalion, Hertfordshire Local Militia, based at

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Political career

Dacre entered Parliament for

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in January 1807, a seat he only held until May of the same year, when he was returned for

. He continued to represent this constituency until 1819, when he succeeded his mother in the barony of Dacre and entered the

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Personal life

Lord Dacre married Barbarina, daughter of Admiral

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and widow of Valentine Wilmot, in 1819. The marriage was childless. He died at The Hoo, Hertfordshire, in March 1851, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother,

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. Lady Dacre died in

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in May 1854, aged 86.

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