Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (29 December 1825 – 28 May 1899) was a British

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politician, and owner of

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Early life

Samuel Ruggles-Brise was the eldest son of John Ruggles (1782–1852) of Spains Hall, who adopted the additional surname of Brise, and Catherine (died 1877), daughter of John Haynes Harrison,

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, and sister of

Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison (2 September 1793 – 1872) of Copford Hall, Lord of the Manor of Copford was High Sheriff of Essex. He was born Fyske Goodeve Harrison on 2 September 1793 at Copford Hall, Essex, to John Haynes Harrison. John Hayne ...

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, who adopted the additional surname of Fiske. John Ruggles was a barrister and High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1829. Samuel was educated at

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and

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. He served in the

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and later was Colonel Commandant of the West Essex Militia (1853–89).''Burke's Landed Gentry''

Political career

He was elected as a

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for East Essex at the 1868 general election, and held the seat at two further elections before resigning from the

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on 14 August 1883 by becoming

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Family

In 1847, Samuel Ruggles-Brise married Marianne Weyland Bowyer-Smith, daughter of Sir Edward Bowyer-Smith, 10th Baronet, of Hill Hall, Essex. They had five sons and seven daughters: * Archibald Weyland Ruggles-Brise (1853–1939), inherited Spains Hall and was father of

Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet (19 September 1882 – 12 May 1942) was a British Conservative Party politician. Early life The son of Archibald Weyland Ruggles Brise (1857-1939), he was born at Westminster, London, in Se ...

. * Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise (1857–1935) was a prison administrator and founder of the

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system. * Captain Cecil Edward Ruggles-Brise (1859–88),

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. * Reginald Francis Ruggles-Brise (1860–1920). * Major General Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise (1864–1927),

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, fought in the

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and

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, ending his career as Military Secretary to

Sir Douglas Haig Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War, he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until ...

.Obituary, ''Times'' (London) 27 June 1927. * Adella Marianne Ruggles-Brise (died 1930). * Edith Cecilia Ruggles-Brise (died 1931), married Captain James Angernon Ind (died 1915). * Constance Sophia Ruggles-Brise (died 1928), W. Hunter Rodwell. * Alice Catherine Ruggles-Brise (died 1911). * Rosalind Letitia Ruggles-Brise (died 1930), married Edward Kensit Norman (died 1902). * Florence Ada Ruggles-Brise. * Beatrice Georgiana Ruggles-Brise married

Henry Jervis-White-Jervis Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (1825 – 22 September 1881) was a British army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1880. Jervis-White-Jervis was the third son of Sir Henry Meredith Jervis White-Jervis, 2 ...

(died 1934)

Notes

References

* ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', 15th Edn, London, 1937. * ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. * ''Who Was Who, 1916–1928''.

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* 1825 births 1899 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge English justices of the peace {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1820s-stub