Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne (27 November 1863 – 15 February 1933) was an English cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er, and later a British peer

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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.

Born in Lowndes Square

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, Chelsea, London

Chelsea, London

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, Knatchbull-Hugessen was the fourth child and second son of Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne

Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne PC , was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department under Lord Russell in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 and was also Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under...

 and his first wife, Anna Maria Elizabeth Southwell. He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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 and King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

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, and appeared in the cricket eleven at both.Knatchbull-Hugessen is listed in the "Supplementary List of Deaths in 1931-32 and 1933", under Brabourne. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

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, he also made appearances for Kent County Cricket Club

Kent County Cricket Club

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. In total he scored 192 runs in 12 appearances, and took ten catches and one stumping

Stump (cricket)

Stump is a term used in the sport of cricket where it has three different meanings:# part of the wicket# a manner of dismissing a batsman# the end of the day's play .-Part of the wicket:...

 keeping wicket.

Knatchbull-Hugessen succeeded to the title Baron Brabourne

Baron Brabourne

Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1880 for the Liberal politician Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, the second son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, of Mersham Hatch...

 in 1915, following the death of his first cousin Wyndham Knatchbull-Hugessen

Wyndham Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne

Wyndham Wentworth Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne was a British peer. He was killed in action with the Grenadier Guards on 11 March 1915, and is buried at Le Touret....

. Knatchbull-Hugessen also inherited the Knatchbull Baronetcy, of Mersham Hatch, after the death of an other cousin, Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet

Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet

Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet JP 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. He was educated at Eton College and worked then as civil...

, in 1917.

Knatchbull-Hugessen died whilst journeying from Cape Town

Cape Town

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 to London

London

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aboard the SS Caernarvon Castle in February 1933.

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• thepeerage.com Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne of Brabourne