Background
Hanbury-Tracy was the third son of John Hanbury of Pontypool Park in Monmouthshire and educated at Rugby School (1790) and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 1 February 1796.
Hanbury-Tracy was the third son of John Hanbury of Pontypool Park in Monmouthshire and educated at Rugby School (1790) and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 1 February 1796.
Christ Church; Rugby School.
The family derived its wealth from its ownership of the Pontypool Ironworks. He was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1800-1801 and High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire for 1804-1805. He was elected to the House of Commons for Tewkesbury in 1807 in the Whig interest, a seat he held until 1812 and again from 1832 to 1837.
Notably he was Chairman of the Commission to judge the designs for the new Houses of Parliament in 1835.
In 1838 Hanbury-Tracy was raised to the peerage as Baron Sudeley, of Toddington in the County of Gloucester. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire between 1848 and 1858.
Henrietta Susanna Tracy, only child and heiress of Henry Leigh Tracy, 8th and last Viscount Tracy by Susannah Weaver, on 29 December 1798. Five days before the marriage he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Tracy.
Through this marriage the ancient estate of Toddington Manor in Gloucestershire came into the Hanbury family.
Lord Sudeley at first had the original house renovated, but later constructed a new house in Gothic style nearby. Later still in the 1840s he was responsible for the rebuilding of Gregynog Hall in Montgomeryshire. Lady Sudeley died on 5 June 1839.
Lord Sudeley survived her by 19 years and died in February 1858, aged 79.
Sudeley"s younger son the Honourable Henry was a politician. They had issue:
Honorary Henrietta Hanbury-Tracy
Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley
Honorary Henry Hanbury-Tracy (1802-1889), Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth.
4th United Kingdom Parliament. 11th United Kingdom Parliament. 12th United Kingdom Parliament.