Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet Personal Computer, Federal Reserve System was a British Tory politician.
Background
Knatchbull was the son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet, and Mary, daughter of William Western Hugessen, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and matriculated in 1800. In 1819 he succeeded in the baronetcy on the death of his father.
Career
He held office under Sir Robert Peel as Paymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835 and as Paymaster-General between 1841 and 1845. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1802 and was called to the Bar at Lincoln"s Inn in 1803. He held the seat until the 1831 general election, which he did not contest.
The Reform Acting 1832 split the Kent county constituency into Eastern and Western divisions, and at the 1831 general election Knatchbull was elected as one of the two MPs for the new Eastern division of Kent.
He held that seat until his resignation in early 1845 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. In 1829 he became one of the leaders of the "Ultra-Tories" who were opposed to Catholic emancipation in Ireland.
Sworn of the Privy Council in 1834, he served under Sir Robert Peel as Paymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835 and as Paymaster-General between 1841 and 1845. Knatchbull married twice.
Mary Louisa Knatchbull (b 1808)
Eleanor Grace Knatchbull (d 1913)
Beatrice Joanna Knatchbull (d 1932)
Mary Dorothea Knatchbull (d 1838)
Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th Baronet (1808–1868)
(child, d 1818)
Annabella died in childbirth in 1814 and on 24 October 1820, Knatchbull married secondly Fanny Catherine Knight, daughter of Edward Knight (né Edward Austen, the brother of English novelist Jane Austen).
They had nine children, including:
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne (1829–1893)
Reverend Reginald Bridges Knatchbull-Hugessen (b 1831)
Herbert Thomas Knatchbull-Hugessen (b 1835)
Lady Knatchbull died in December 1882.
Membership
Royal Society; 6th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament.
9th United Kingdom Parliament.
11th United Kingdom Parliament. 12th United Kingdom Parliament.
13th United Kingdom Parliament. 14th United Kingdom Parliament]
Knatchbull was elected as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Kent at a by-election in November 1819, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father.