Frederick Hanbury-Tracy

The Hon. Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy (15 September 1848 – 9 August 1906), was a British politician.

"gentle and liberal"
As caricatured by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, 17 May 1884

Life

Hanbury-Tracy was a younger son of Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, and his wife Emma Elizabeth Alicia, daughter of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant, of Baron Penrhyn's family. Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley, was his elder brother. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA. He served as a major in the Worcester Yeomanry, and retired as a lieutenant-colonel.

He succeeded the latter as Member of Parliament for Montgomery in 1877, a seat he held until 1885, and again from 1886 to 1892.

Family

Hanbury-Tracy married in 1870 Helena Caroline Winnington, the only daughter of Sir Thomas Winnington, 4th Baronet by Anna Helena Domville. They had issue:[1]

• Eric Hanbury-Tracy (b1871), and officer in the Coldstream Guards, who married in 1902 Dorothy Greathed, daughter of General Sir Edward Greathed[2]
• Edith Julia Helena Hanbury-Tracy (b1872)
• Cyprienne Emma Madeleine Hanbury-Tracy,OBE[3] (b1874)
• Violet Mary Claudia Hanbury-Tracy (1876-1963), married 1900 Wyndham Dunstan.
• Hilda Adelaide Eleanor Hanbury-Tracy (b1877)
• Gwyneth Rose Coda Hanbury-Tracy (b1879)

He died 9 August 1906, aged 57.

References

1. Debrett′s Peerage, 1903
2. "Court Circular". The Times (36919). London. 7 November 1902. p. 8.
3. "No. 31114". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 January 1919. p. 460.

• Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (107th edition) editor Charles Mosley 2 volumes (London 2010)
• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage including Extinct, Dormant and Abeyant titles (London 1999)
• G E Cokayne (ed.), Complete Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, 20 volumes (London 1937)

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Frederick Hanbury-Tracy