Henry Hanbury-Tracy

[1] Hanbury-Tracy was born at Toddington, Gloucestershire, a younger son of Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, by the Honourable Henrietta Susanna, only child and heiress of Henry Tracy, 8th Viscount Tracy.

Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, was his elder brother.

[2] He was elected at the 1837 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgnorth,[3] but resigned from Parliament the following year by becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

[3] Hanbury-Tracy married Rosamond Ann Myrtle, daughter of Robert William Shirley, Viscount Tamworth, in 1841.

[5] Hanbury-Tracy was appointed lieutenant-colonel commandant of that regiment on 1 May 1854, succeeding Sir John Conroy, 1st Baronet.