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

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, he was educated at

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and

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Marriage and family

On 29 April 1899, he married Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott (a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch), and they had eight children. He was succeeded first by his eldest son

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(two surviving daughters, the

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inherited the Barony of Dacre in 1970 from her father) and then by his second son in the

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Military career

Brand was commissioned a second lieutenant on 20 November 1889, promoted to a

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on 10 June 1891, and to

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on 16 February 1898. He served as an officer in the Hertfordshire Regiment, then transferred to the

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. He saw active service in Southern Africa during the

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from 1899 to 1902, during which he received a brevet promotion to

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on 29 November 1900. From July 1901 he was

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of the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry. He received the substantive rank of major on 14 January 1903, and was later the same year appointed 2nd in command of the 2nd Provisional Regiment of Hussars. From 1905 he was private secretary to Earl Cawdor; then a brigadier-major in the

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from 1908 to 1910. Later he served as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion from February 1913. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the Hertfordshires were deployed to the Western Front and Brand remained in command until January 1915. Subsequently, he was promoted to brigadier general and appointed to command the 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade at

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, the

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with the

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and later the

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at the Battle of Cambrai and the battles of 1918.Maj A.F. Becke,''History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: the 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions'', London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . Between 1935 and 1939, he was

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of the 10th Royal Hussars.

Other interests

In 1899, he played in the first international

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match between England and Australia in

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alongside George Bellew-Bryan, 4th Baron Bellew.Horace A. Laffaye, ''Polo in Britain: A History'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2012, p. 37

References

Work cited

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