Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

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Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB (24 December 1814–March 14, 1892), speaker of the House of Commons, was the second son of the 21st Baron Dacre, and descended from John Hampden, the patriot, in the female line.

The barony of Dacre devolved on him in 1890, after he had been created Viscount Hampden in 1884. He entered parliament as a Liberal in 1852, and for some time was Chief Whip of his party. He was a Lord of the Treasury during the first Palmerston ministry, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury during the second. In 1872 he was elected speaker, and retained this post till February 1884.

It fell to him to deal with the systematic obstruction of the Irish Nationalist Party, and his speakership is memorable for his action on February 2, 1881 in refusing further debate on W.E. Forster's Coercion Bill—a step which led to the formal introduction of the closure into parliamentary procedure. He died on the 14th of March 1892, being succeeded as 2nd viscount by his son (b. 1841), who was governor of New South Wales, 1895–1899.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Robert Perfect	Member for Lewes 1852–1865	Succeeded by: Lord Pelham
Preceded by: Eliot Thomas Yorke Henry John Adeane Lord George John Manners	Member for Cambridgeshire with Lord George John Manners 1865–1874, Viscount Royston 1865–1874, Eliot Constantine Yorke 1874–1879, Benjamin Bridges Hunter Rodwell 1874–1881, Edward Hicks 1879–1884, James Redfoord Bulwer 1881–1884 1865–1884	Succeeded by: Edward Hicks James Redfoord Bulwer Arthur John Thornhill
Political offices
Preceded by: Sir William Jolliffe, Bt	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1859–1866	Succeeded by: Thomas Edward Taylor
Preceded by: John Eveyln Denison	Speaker of the House of Commons 1872–1884	Succeeded by: Arthur Wellesley Peel
Honorary Titles
Preceded by: The Earl of Chichester	Lord Lieutenant of Sussex 1886–1892	Succeeded by: The Marquess of Abergavenny
Preceded by: New Creation	Viscount Hampden 1884–1892	Succeeded by: Henry Brand
Preceded by: Henry Trevor	Baron Dacre 1890–1892