Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne, PC (April 29, 1829-6 February, 1893) was a British Liberal politician.

Born Edward Hugessen Knatchbull, he was the younger son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, of Mersham Hatch, who twice served as Paymaster-General, and Fanny Catherine Knight. In 1849 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hugessen, which was the maiden surname of his father's mother. Knatchbull-Hugessen was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union. In 1857 he was elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich, a seat he would hold until 1880, and served under Lord Palmerston as a Government Whip from 1859 to 1860, as Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Lord Russell in 1866 and under Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 and under Gladstone as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1871 to 1874. Knatchbull-Hugessen was admitted to the Privy Council in 1873 and in 1880 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent. Lord Brabourne died in February 1893, aged 63.