Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet

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Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet PC (20 December 1781 – 24 May 1849) was a British Conservative politician.

The son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet and Mary Hugessen was educated in Christ Church, Oxford and matriculated in 1800. He was called to Lincoln's Inn in 1803 and succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 21 September 1819. Knatchbull was Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent from 1819 to 1831, and for Kent East from 1833 to 1845. Sworn of the Privy Council in 1834, he was Paymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835, and between 1841 and 1845. He died, aged 67, in Mersham Hatch, Kent.

Knatchbull is responsble for the passing of the Workhouse Test Act which altered provision's for poor relief.

[edit] Family

Knatchbull has married twice. Firstly he married Annabella Christiana Honywood, daughter of Sir John Honywood, 4th Baronet on 25 August 1806. They had five children:

  • Mary Louisa Knatchbull (d. 1923)
  • Eleanor Grace Knatchbull (d. 1913)
  • Beatrice Joanna Knatchbull (d. 1932)
  • Mary Dorothea Knatchbull (d. 1838)
  • Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th Baronet (1808–1868)

On 24 October 1820, he married secondly Fanny Catherine Knight, daughter of Edward Knight. They had thee children:

[edit] References

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by:
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt.
William Philip Honywood		 Member of Parliament for Kent
with William Philip Honywood 1819-1830,
Thomas Law Hodges 1830-1831
1819–1831		 Succeeded by:
Thomas Law Hodges
Thomas Rider
Preceded by:
(constituency created)		 Member of Parliament for East Kent
with John Pemberton Plumptre
1833–1845		 Succeeded by:
John Pemberton Plumptre
William Deedes
Political offices
Preceded by:
The Lord John Russell		 Paymaster of the Forces
1834–1835		 Succeeded by:
Sir Henry Parnell, Bt
Preceded by:
Edward Stanley		 Paymaster of the Forces
1841–1845		 Succeeded by:
William Baring
Baronetage of England
Preceded by:
Edward Knatchbull		 Baronet
(of Mersham Hatch)
1819–1849		 Succeeded by:
Norton Joseph Knatchbull

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