Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden (* December 24, 1814, † March 14, 1892 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and Speaker of the House (House of Commons ).

Family

Fire came from the maternal patriots John Hampden, a leader of the bourgeois revolution during the English Civil War (1642-1649) from. He was the son of Colonel Henry Otway Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre.

Political career

Member of Parliament and member of the government

He began his political career in 1852 with the election of deputies of the lower house (House of Commons ). There he found, firstly to 1865, the interests of the Liberal Party in the constituency Lewes. Then he represented from 1865 to 1884 the constituency of Cambridgeshire in the House.

From April 1855 to March 1858 he was Lord of the Treasury in the first cabinet of Viscount Palmerston, and thus one of the representatives of the Lord High Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

From June 24 1859 to July 12, 1866 he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Whip of his party at the same time. He had a kind of group managing both seat and vote in the cabinets of former Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston (1859-1865) and Earl Russell ( 1865-1866 ).

Speaker of Parliament and a member of the Upper House

In 1872 he was elected to succeed John Evelyn Denison spokesman ( Speaker) of the House of Commons. This office he held until his resignation in February 1884. During his tenure came the rise of the Irish Home Rule movement of the League, which was renamed in 1882 in the Irish Parliamentary Party under the chairmanship of Charles Stewart Parnell. Successor as House speaker was Arthur Wellesley Peel.

After his resignation, he was elevated to an old tradition according to the hereditary peerage. He bore the title of Viscount Hampden and thus belonged to the House of Lords ( House of Lords ) to. Between 1886 and 1892 he also worked as Lord Lieutenant representative of Queen Victoria in the county of Sussex. In 1890 he inherited the title of Baron Dacre also.

The title was inherited at his death in 1892 his son Henry Robert Brand, who was from 1895 to 1902 Governor of New South Wales.