Thomas Henry Brand, 4th Viscount Hampden CMG (30 March 1900 – 17 October 1965) was a British and English peer, both

Baron Dacre Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, each time by Hereditary peer#Writs of summons, writ. History The first creation came in 1321, when Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre, Ralph Dacre was Hereditary peer# ...

(dating from 1307) and

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Biography

Brand was the eldest son of soldier and courtier

Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden Brigadier General Thomas Walter Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden, (29 January 1869 – 4 September 1958) was a British peer and soldier, the son of the 2nd Viscount Hampden. Education Born in Westminster, he was educated at Eton College and Trinit ...

, and of his wife Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch, and was born 30 March 1900 at the home of his maternal grandfather, Montagu House in London. He was educated at Eton, holding the office of

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between 1913 and 1916. After Eton, he joined the

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and was commissioned as a

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into the

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.'HAMPDEN, 4th Viscount (born 30 March 1900, died 17 Oct. 1965)' in ''Who Was Who'', A. & C. Black, 1920–2008
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by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 1 January 2011 (subscription required) On 26 July 1923, he married Leila, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Seely, of Ramsdale Park,

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and son of

Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet Colonel Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet Venerable Order of Saint John, KGStJ, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (11 August 1833 – 16 April 1915) was a British industrialist and politician. Seely was Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party Member of Parliament ( ...

. They had four daughters, Sarah Elizma (1924–1937), Gian Katherine (1927–1929), Rachel Leila (1929–2012), and Tessa Mary (1934-2020). In 1931 he became Managing Director of Lazard Brothers & Co. During the

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he served as Chief Executive Officer on the British side of the

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, from 1942 to 1944, then from 1944 to 1945 was Chairman of Supplies for Liberated Areas Official Committee. He was appointed CMG in 1943, and in 1953 and 1954 was Chairman of the Issuing Houses Association. He succeeded to his father's titles in 1958 and in 1965 became Chairman of

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s. After Hampden's death on 17 October 1965 his brother

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succeeded as

, while his two surviving daughters were left as co-heiresses to the Barony of Dacre, which thus went into

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. However, the abeyance was terminated in 1970 in favour of his elder surviving daughter

Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre Rachel Leila Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre (; 24 October 1929 – 25 December 2012) was an English peer. Early life Lady Dacre was a daughter of Thomas Brand, 4th Viscount Hampden and 26th Baron Dacre, and his wife, Leila Emily Seely, a g ...

References

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