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Thomas Brand (senior) (c. 1717 – 1770) was an English country landowner of The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1770.
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Brand was the eldest son of soldier and courtier Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden, and of his wife Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch, and was born 30 March 1900 at the home of his maternal grandfather, Montagu House in London. [1]
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Brand supported children of poor parents, and put them to trades. Jabez Earle, minister of the presbyterian congregation in Hanover Street, London, was one of his protégés. Brand said he ‘would not sell his estate because it was entailed, but he would squeeze it as long as he lived.’ Brand died 1 December 1691, and was buried in Bunhill ...
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Thomas Brand may refer to: Thomas Brand (minister) (1635–1691), English nonconformist; Thomas Brand (senior) (c. 1717–1770), British Member of Parliament for Gatton, New Shoreham, Okehampton and Tavistock; Thomas Brand Hollis (1719–1804), British radical and dissenter; Thomas Brand (junior) (1749–1794), British Member of Parliament for ...