Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet

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

The son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet and Mary Hugessen was educated in Christ Church, Oxford and matriculated in 1800. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 May 1802.^[1] 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 East Kent from 1833 to 1845. Sworn of the Privy Council in 1834, he was Paymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835, and Paymaster-General 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 provisions 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:

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne (1829–1893)
Reverend Reginald Bridges Knatchbull-Hugessen (b. 1831)
Herbert Thomas Knatchbull-Hugessen (b. 1835)

[edit] References

^ Lists of Royal Society Fellows. Retrieved on December 15, 2006.

thePeerage. Retrieved on December 4, 2006.

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-General 1841–1845	Succeeded by William Baring
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Edward Knatchbull	Baronet (of Mersham Hatch) 1819–1849	Succeeded by Norton Joseph Knatchbull