Edward Ruggles-Brise
Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise | |
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Member of Parliament for Maldon | |
In office 29 October 1924 – 12 May 1942 | |
Preceded by | Valentine Crittall |
Succeeded by | Tom Driberg |
In office 15 November 1922 – 16 November 1923 | |
Preceded by | James Fortescue Flannery |
Succeeded by | Valentine Crittall |
Personal details | |
Born | Westminster, London, England | 19 September 1882
Died | 12 May 1942 | (aged 59)
Political party | Conservative |
Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet MC TD JP DL (19 September 1882 – 12 May 1942) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Early life
[edit]The son of Archibald Weyland Ruggles Brise (1857-1939), he was born at Westminster, London, in September 1882 and was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]
Career
[edit]Public service
[edit]He was magistrate and a Deputy Lieutenant for Essex from 1920.[2] In 1939 he was appointed as a Vice Lieutenant of Essex.[3]
Political career
[edit]He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Maldon constituency in Essex from 1922 until his death in 1942, with a brief interruption from 1923 to 1924 when he narrowly lost the seat to his Labour opponent Valentine Crittall.
Ruggles-Brise was greatly interested in agricultural matters, serving on the Smallholdings Committee of Essex County Council and as Chairman of the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee.
Military career
[edit]Ruggles-Brise was appointed a second lieutenant in the Essex Yeomanry on 24 January 1903.[4] From 1927, he commanded the 104th Essex Yeomanry Field Brigade, Royal Artillery of the Territorial Army.
Sport
[edit]Ruggles-Brise was a cricketer below first-class play level. He made one appearance making 27 runs at county level for Shropshire in 1904, while playing at club level for Ellesmere.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Ruggles-Brise was a landowner and was the owner of Spains Hall in Finchingfield, Essex, which had been inherited by his father, Archibald Weyland Ruggles-Brise, on the death of his own father, the politician Samuel Ruggles-Brise.
He married twice. Firstly, in 1906, to Agatha Gurney (1881–1937), daughter of John Henry Gurney Jr., a member of the Gurney family of Keswick Hall, Norfolk. Secondly, in 1939, to Lucy Barbara Pym MBE (1895–1979), daughter of Walter Ruthven Pym, Bishop of Bombay.[6]
Following his death in May 1942 aged 59, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Colonel Sir John Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet.
Honours and decorations
[edit]In the 1935 Jubilee Honours List, he was made a Baronet, of Spains Hall, in Essex.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. p. 24. ISBN 1-902171-17-9.Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
- ^ Deputy Lieutenancy announced: "No. 31994". The London Gazette. 27 July 1920. p. 7867.
- ^ Vice Lieutenancy announced: "No. 34627". The London Gazette. 19 May 1939. p. 3380.
- ^ "No. 27518". The London Gazette. 23 January 1903. p. 470.
- '^ Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 24,50.
- ^ "Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise". familysearch.org. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ Baronetcy announced: "No. 34119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1934. p. 1.
- ^ Letters patent granted: "No. 34130". The London Gazette. 5 February 1935. pp. 837–838.
Sources
[edit]- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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