Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1863
Date of Death: 15-Feb-1933
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne
- Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne (27 November 1863 – 15 February 1933) was an English cricketer, and later a British peer. Knatchbull-Hugessen was born in Lowndes Square in Chelsea, the fourth child and second son of Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne and his first wife, Anna Maria Elizabeth Southwell.
- He was educated at Eton College where he was in the cricket XI from 1881 to 1883.
- He went up to King's College, Cambridge with a scholarship and won the Pitt Scholarship, graduating with a first class degree in Classics in 1886.
- He was considered to be an "accomplished scholar", was "highly distinguished for the Chancellor's medal" in 1887 and considered "an extraordinarily good modern linguist".
- He published The Political Evolution the Hungarian Nation in 1908, a text which became "a standard work on the subject".A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he made a total of 12 first-class cricket appearances between 1884 and 1886, primarily for the University side.
- He won a blue in 1886 and also played once for Kent County Cricket Club in 1884.After graduating, Knatchbull-Hugessen spent a year as a teacher at Eton before training as a barrister, being called to the bar in 1890.
- He married Helena Regina Frederica Flesch von Brunningen, daughter of the Austrian nobleman Hermann Flesch Edler von Brunningen, on 8 November 1893.
- He succeeded to the title Baron Brabourne in 1915, following the death of his nephew Wyndham Knatchbull-Hugessen.
- Knatchbull-Hugessen also inherited the Knatchbull Baronetcy, of Mersham Hatch, after the death of another cousin, Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet, in 1917.Knatchbull-Hugessen was a director and later the chairman of the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa and was primarily a businessman.
- He died while journeying from Cape Town, where he had business interests, to London aboard the SS Caernarvon Castle in February 1933 aged 69.
- He was buried at sea, but is commemorated with a tablet in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin at Smeeth in Kent.
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