Wyndham Knatchbull Explained

Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet JP (9 August 1844  - 30 July 1917)^[1] was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.

Knatchbull was the second son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, 10th Baronet and his wife Mary Watts-Russell, eldest daughter of Jesse Watts-Russell, MP for Gatton.^[2] He was educated at Eton College and worked then as civil servant for the General Post Office.^[3] In 1871, he succeeded his older brother Edward as baronet.^[3] He entered the British House of Commons in 1875, sitting for East Kent until the following year.^[3] Knatchbull was Justice of the Peace for Kent.^[2]

Family

Knatchbull married, at Christ church, Folkestone, on 18 March 1902, Margaret Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Charles Taylor, Esq., of Frensham Hill, Surrey, and widow of John Dillon Browne, Esq.^{[4] [5] [6]} Their marriage was childless.^[6] He died in 1917 aged 73 and was succeeded by Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, the second son of his cousin Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne, in turn the second son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leigh Rayment - Baronetage . https://web.archive.org/web/20080501225124/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsK.htm . 1 May 2008 . usurped . 1 December 2009 .
2. Book: Who is Who 1914 . Adam & Charles Black Ltd. . London . 1914 . 1179 .
3. Book: Debrett, John . Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage . Oldhams Press . London . 1893 . 316 .
4. Book: Walford, Edward. [KNATCHBULL, Lady] The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland]. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1 January 1860. 24 November 2023.
5. Marriages . 20 March 1902 . 1 . 36720.
6. Book: Dod, Charles Roger Phipps . Charles Dod

   . Charles Dod . Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland . 1915 . Dod's Peerage Ltd . London . 330 .