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

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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 Member of Parliament for East Essex at the 1868 general election, and held the seat at two further elections before

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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-Smijth, 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. * 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

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.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 Herbert Jervis-White-Jervis, a son of Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (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''.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruggles-Brise, Samuel 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