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

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peer, both

Baron Dacre Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. History The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Mult ...

(dating from 1307) and

Viscount Hampden Viscount Hampden is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain when the diplomat and politician Robert Hampde ...

. The son of

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 He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. ...

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, KCB, CMG, and of Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch, he was educated at

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, 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

Rifle Brigade The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle ...

.'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 KGStJ, DL (11 August 1833 – 16 April 1915) was a British industrialist and politician. Seely was Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham from 1869 to 1874 and 1880 to 1885, and for Nott ...

. 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 David 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 (née Brand, 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 Se ...

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1900 births 1965 deaths 26 British bankers Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Pages of Honour People educated at Eton College Rifle Brigade officers 4 {{UK-viscount-stub