Earl Brassey
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Earl Brassey was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
. It was created in 1911 for the Liberal
politician and former Governor of Victoria, Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey
. He had already been created Baron Brassey, of Bulkeley in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1886, and was made Viscount Hythe, of Hythe in the County of Kent, at the same time as he was granted the earldom. These titles were also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The titles became extinct upon the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1919.
Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe
was the nephew of the first Earl.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...
. It was created in 1911 for the Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
politician and former Governor of Victoria, Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey GCB, JP, DL, TD , was a British Liberal Party politician, Governor of Victoria and founder of The Naval Annual.-Background and education:...
. He had already been created Baron Brassey, of Bulkeley in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1886, and was made Viscount Hythe, of Hythe in the County of Kent, at the same time as he was granted the earldom. These titles were also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The titles became extinct upon the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1919.
Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe
Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe
Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe DL , known as Sir Henry Brassey, 1st Baronet, from 1922 to 1938, was a British Conservative politician.-Biography:...
was the nephew of the first Earl.
Earls Brassey (1911)
- Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl BrasseyThomas Brassey, 1st Earl BrasseyThomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey GCB, JP, DL, TD , was a British Liberal Party politician, Governor of Victoria and founder of The Naval Annual.-Background and education:...
(1836–1918) - Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl BrasseyThomas Brassey, 2nd Earl BrasseyThomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey DL, JP, TD MInstNA AMICE , styled Viscount Hythe between 1911 and 1918, was a British peer, who was for many years editor or joint editor of Brassey's Naval Annual....
(1863–1919)