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Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (7 March 1870 – 22 October 1958), DL (known from 1922 to 1938 as Sir Henry Brassey, 1st Baronet), of

Apethorpe Hall Apethorpe Palace (pronounced ''App-thorp''), formerly known as "Apethorpe Hall", is a Grade I listed country house, dating to the 15th century, close to Apethorpe, Northamptonshire. It was a "favourite royal residence" for James I. After res ...

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, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Origins

He was the second but eldest surviving son of Henry Arthur Brassey (1840–1891), DL, of Preston Hall, Aylesford,

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and of Bath House,

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, London, a

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Member of Parliament for

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in Kent, the second son of the railway magnate

Thomas Brassey Thomas Brassey (7 November 18058 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about o ...

(1805–1870) and a younger brother of

Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (11 February 1836 – 23 February 1918), was a British Liberal Party politician, governor of the Colony of Victoria and founder of '' The Naval Annual''. Background and education Brassey was the eldest son of ...

(1836–1918). His mother was Anna Harriet Stevenson (d.1898), a daughter of Major George Robert Stevenson of Tongswood, Hawkhurst, Kent.

Career

In 1904 he purchased

near the City of

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in Northamptonshire, which he made his seat. He was elected to the

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for Northamptonshire North in 1910, a seat he held until 1918, and then represented

between 1918 and 1929. Brassey fought in the

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, achieving the rank of

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in the

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and in the West Kent Yeomanry. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire and for Kent, as

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in 1907 and as a Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. In 1922 he was created a

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, "of Apethorpe in the County of Northampton", and in 1938 he was further honoured when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Brassey of Apethorpe "of Apethorpe in the County of Northampton". (His uncle the 1st Earl Brassey had firstly in 1886 been created Baron Brassey, "of Bulkeley in the County Palatine of Chester", but all his titles had become extinct in 1919 on the death with no children of his son the 2nd Earl).

Marriage and children

In 1894 he married Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (1874–1946), a daughter of

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, by whom he had six sons, two of whom died as infants and a further two of whom predeceased their father. His issue included: * Bernard Thomas Brassey, 2nd Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (1905–1967), 5th and eldest surviving son and heir.

Death

Brassey died in October 1958, aged 88 and was succeeded in his titles by his fifth but eldest surviving son Bernard Thomas Brassey, 2nd Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (1905–1967).

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * * *

External links

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