Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet JP (9 August 1844 – 30 July 1917) was a British barrister and

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politician. Knatchbull was the second son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, 10th Baronet and his wife Mary Watts-Russell, eldest daughter of Jesse Watts-Russell, MP for Gatton. He was educated at

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and worked then as civil servant for the

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. In 1871, he succeeded his older brother Edward as baronet. He entered the

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in 1875, sitting for

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until the following year. Knatchbull was

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for

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Family

Knatchbull married, at Christ church,

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, on 18 March 1902, Margaret Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Charles Taylor, Esq., of Frensham Hill,

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, and widow of John Dillon Browne, Esq. Their marriage was childless. He died in 1917 aged 73 and was succeeded by Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, the second son of his cousin

Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne (29 April 1829 – 6 February 1893), known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, was a British Liberal and later Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Departm ...

, in turn the second son of

Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, (20 December 1781 – 24 May 1849) was a British Tory politician. He held office under Sir Robert Peel as Paymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835 and as Paymaster-General between 1841 and 1845. Backgr ...

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