Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe

He was the second but eldest surviving son of Henry Arthur Brassey (1840–1891), DL, of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent and of Bath House, Piccadilly, London, a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Sandwich in Kent, the second son of the railway magnate Thomas Brassey (1805–1870) and a younger brother of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918).

In 1904 he purchased Apethorpe Hall near the City of Peterborough in Northamptonshire, which he made his seat.

He was elected to the House of Commons for Northamptonshire North in 1910, a seat he held until 1918, and then represented Peterborough between 1918 and 1929.

[3] (His uncle the 1st Earl Brassey had firstly in 1886 been created Baron Brassey, "of Bulkeley in the County Palatine of Chester", but all his titles had become extinct in 1919 on the death with no children of his son the 2nd Earl).

In 1894 he married Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (1874–1946), a daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, by whom he had six sons, two of whom died as infants and a further two of whom predeceased their father.