Henry Brassey
Henry Arthur Brassey, DL, of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent and of Bath House, Piccadilly, London, was a British Member of Parliament.
Origins
He was the second son of the railway magnate Thomas Brassey by his wife Maria Harrison, a daughter of Thomas Harrison of Liverpool. His elder brother was Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and his younger brother was Albert Brassey, a Member of Parliament for Banbury.Career
He was educated at Oxford University, and in 1868 was elected as Member of Parliament for Sandwich in Kent, as a Liberal, a seat he held until 1885. Brassey served as a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent, as High Sheriff of Kent in 1890 and as a Justice of the Peace for that county.Marriage and children
In 1866 Brassey married Anna Harriet Stevenson, a daughter of Major George Robert Stevenson of Tongswood, Hawkhurst, Kent, by whom he had five sons and seven daughters, including:- Henry Brassey, 1st [Baron Brassey of Apethorpe], second but eldest surviving son and heir, a Conservative politician who was raised to the peerage in 1938;
- Harold Ernest Brassey, soldier and polo champion;
- Hilda Brassey, wife of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th [Duke of Richmond].
- Beatrice Brassey, co-founder of the White Heather Club, the first women's cricket club.
Death