Wyndham KnatchbullSir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet JP (9 August 1844 – 30 July 1917)[1] 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, MP for Gatton.[2] He was educated at Eton College and worked then as civil servant for the General Post Office.[3] In 1871, he succeeded his older brother Edward as baronet.[3] He entered the British House of Commons in 1875, sitting for East Kent until the following year.[3] Knatchbull was Justice of the Peace for Kent.[2] FamilyKnatchbull married, at Christ church, Folkestone, on 18 March 1902, Margaret Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Charles Taylor, Esq., of Frensham Hill, Surrey, and widow of John Dillon Browne, Esq.[4][5][6] Their marriage was childless.[6] He died in 1917 aged 73 and was succeeded by Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, the second son of his cousin Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne, in turn the second son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet. References
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