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Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden

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The Viscount Hampden
Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire
In office
9 February 1915 – 1952
MonarchsGeorge V
Edward VIII
George VI
Elizabeth II
Preceded byThe Earl of Clarendon
Succeeded bySir David Bowes Lyon
Personal details
Born(1869-01-29)29 January 1869
Westminster, London, England[1]
Died4 September 1958(1958-09-04) (aged 89)
SpouseLady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott
ChildrenThomas Brand, 4th Viscount Hampden
David Brand, 5th Viscount Hampden
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/serviceBritish Army
Years of service1889–1919
RankBrigadier General
UnitHertfordshire Regiment
Commands185th (2/1st West Riding) Brigade (1916–18)
126th (East Lancashire) Brigade (1915–16)
1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment (1913–15)
Battles/warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Knight of the Order of St John
Mentioned in Despatches (9)
Legion of Honour (France)

Brigadier General Thomas Walter Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden GCVO KCB CMG KStJ JP (29 January 1869 – 4 September 1958) was a British peer and soldier, the son of the 2nd Viscount Hampden.

Education

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He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2][3]

Marriage and family

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On 29 April 1899, he married Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott (a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch),[3] and they had eight children. He was succeeded first by his eldest son Thomas (two surviving daughters, the eldest inherited the Barony of Dacre in 1970 from her father) and then by his second son in the viscountcy, David.

Military career

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Brand was commissioned a second lieutenant on 20 November 1889, promoted to a lieutenant on 10 June 1891, and to captain on 16 February 1898. He served as an officer in the Hertfordshire Regiment, then transferred to the 10th Royal Hussars. He saw active service in Southern Africa during the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902, during which he received a brevet promotion to major on 29 November 1900. From July 1901 he was adjutant of the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry.[4] He received the substantive rank of major on 14 January 1903,[5] and was later the same year appointed 2nd in command of the 2nd Provisional Regiment of Hussars. From 1905 he was private secretary to Earl Cawdor; then a brigadier-major in the British Armed Forces from 1908 to 1910.[3] Later he served as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion from February 1913. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the Hertfordshires were deployed to the Western Front and Brand remained in command until January 1915. Subsequently, he was promoted to brigadier general and appointed to command the 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade at Gallipoli, the 6th Mounted Brigade with the Western Frontier Force and later the 185th (2/1st West Riding) Brigade at the Battle of Cambrai and the battles of 1918.[6][7][8] Between 1935 and 1939, he was Colonel of the 10th Royal Hussars.

Other interests

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In 1899, he played in the first international polo match between England and Australia in Melbourne alongside George Bellew-Bryan, 4th Baron Bellew.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Sir Thomas Walter BRAND 3rd Viscount Hampden, 25th Baron Dacre (1869-1958) » More like a forest than a tree! » Genealogy Online".
  2. ^ 'HAMPDEN', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  3. ^ a b c Hesilrige 1921, p. 439.
  4. ^ Hart′s Army list 1903
  5. ^ "No. 27516". The London Gazette. 16 January 1903. p. 306.
  6. ^ [1] Hertfordshire Regiment in the Great War
  7. ^ Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: the Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56), London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8.
  8. ^ Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: the 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8.
  9. ^ Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in Britain: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2012, p. 37

Work cited

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Military offices
Preceded by Colonel of the 10th Royal Hussars
(Prince of Wales's Own)

1935–1939
Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire
1915–1952
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Hampden
2nd creation
1906–1958
Succeeded by