Sir Edward Knatchbull | |
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 Portrait of Knatchbull byThomas Phillips | |
| Paymaster General | |
| In office 8 September 1841 – 1 March 1845 | |
| Prime Minister | Sir Robert Peel, Bt |
| Preceded by | Hon. Edward Stanley |
| Succeeded by | Hon. Bingham Baring |
| Paymaster of the Forces | |
| In office 23 December 1834 – 8 April 1835 | |
| Prime Minister | Sir Robert Peel, Bt |
| Preceded by | Lord John Russell |
| Succeeded by | Sir Henry Parnell, Bt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 December 1781 (1781-12-20) |
| Died | 24 May 1849 (1849-05-25) (aged 67) Mersham Hatch,Kent |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Tory/Ultra-Tory |
| Spouse(s) | (1) Annabella Honywood (d. 1814) (2) Fanny Knight (1793-1882) |
| Parent(s) | Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet (Father) Mary Knatchbull (Mother) |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet,PC, FRS (20 December 1781 – 24 May 1849) was a BritishTory politician. He held office underSir Robert Peel asPaymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835 and asPaymaster General between 1841 and 1845.
Knatchbull was the son ofSir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet, and Mary, daughter and heiress of William Western Hugessen, ofProvender House in Norton, Kent,[1] and was educated atChrist Church, Oxford, and matriculated in 1800.
He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society in 1802[2] and wascalled to the Bar atLincoln's Inn in 1803. In 1819 he succeeded in the baronetcy on the death of his father.
Knatchbull was elected as aMember of Parliament (MP) forKent at a by-election in November 1819, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father.[3][4] He held the seat until the1831 general election,[5] which he did not contest. TheReform Act 1832 split the Kent county constituency into Eastern and Western divisions, and at the1832 general election Knatchbull andJohn Pemberton Plumptre were elected as Members for the newEastern division of Kent.[6] Knatchbull held that seat until hisresignation[7][8] in early 1845[5] by taking theChiltern Hundreds.[7]
In 1829 he became one of the leaders of the "Ultra-Tories" who were opposed to Catholic emancipation in Ireland.[citation needed] Sworn of thePrivy Council in 1834,[9] he served underSir Robert Peel asPaymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835 and asPaymaster General between 1841 and 1845.[10]
Knatchbull married twice. His first wife was Annabella Christiana Honywood, daughter ofSir John Honywood, 4th Baronet and Hon. Frances Courtenay. They married on 25 August 1806 and had six children:
Annabella died in childbirth in 1814 and on 24 October 1820, Knatchbull married secondlyFanny Catherine Knight, daughter ofEdward Knight (né Edward Austen, the brother of English novelistJane Austen). They had nine children, including:
Knatchbull died in May 1849, aged 67, at the family's Mersham Hatch estate in Kent, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son from his first marriage, Norton. Lady Knatchbull died in December 1882.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forKent 1819–1831 With:William Philip Honywood 1819–1830 Thomas Law Hodges 1830–1831 | Succeeded by |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament forEast Kent 1832–1845 With:John Pemberton Plumptre | Succeeded by |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Paymaster of the Forces 1834–1835 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Paymaster General 1841–1845 | Succeeded by |
| Baronetage of England | ||
| Preceded by | Baronet (of Mersham Hatch) 1819–1849 | Succeeded by Norton Joseph Knatchbull |
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