Thomas Brand (senior) ( 1717 – 1770) was an English country landowner of The Hoo,

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and politician who sat in the

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from 1741 to 1770. Brand was the only son of Thomas Brand and his wife Margaret Nicholl, daughter of John Nicholl of Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire and Margaret Marsh, heiress to a property known as Pricklers, in Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire (now known as Greenhill Gardens, East Barnet). He was educated at

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(1728) and probably

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(1735). From 1739 to 1741 he undertook the Grand Tour of Europe. Brand was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for New Shoreham in

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on the interest of John Phillipson. In

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, he was returned as MP for

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by his friend the Duke of Bedford. He became more closely connected with the Duke when he married Lady Caroline Pierrepont, the daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull who was an aunt of the Duke's wife. He was returned as MP for Gatton in 1754 and for

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. Brand died in August 1770. He was succeeded by his only son

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who was also MP. He and his wife Caroline also had two daughters.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhill_Gardens,_New_Barnet 1700s births Place of birth unknown 1770 deaths Place of death unknown People educated at Eton College Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Okehampton British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub