Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise | |
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| Member of Parliament for Maldon | |
| In office 29 October 1924 – 12 May 1942 | |
| Preceded by | Valentine Crittall |
| Succeeded by | Tom Driberg |
| In office 15 November 1922 – 16 November 1923 | |
| Preceded by | James Fortescue Flannery |
| Succeeded by | Valentine Crittall |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 September 1882 Westminster, London, England |
| Died | 12 May 1942 (aged 59) |
| Political party | Conservative |
Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet MC TD JP DL (19 September 1882 – 12 May 1942) was a British Conservative Party politician.
The son of Archibald Weyland Ruggles Brise (1857-1939), he was born at Westminster, London, in September 1882 and was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University.[1]
He was magistrate and a Deputy Lieutenant for Essex from 1920.[2] In 1939 he was appointed as a Vice Lieutenant of Essex.[3]
He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Maldon constituency in Essex from 1922 until his death in 1942, with a brief interruption from 1923 to 1924 when he narrowly lost the seat to his Labour opponent Valentine Crittall.
Ruggles-Brise was greatly interested in agricultural matters, serving on the Smallholdings Committee of Essex County Council and as Chairman of the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee.
Ruggles-Brise was appointed a second lieutenant in the Essex Yeomanry on 24 January 1903.[4] From 1927, he commanded the 104th Essex Yeomanry Field Brigade, Royal Artillery of the Territorial Army.
Ruggles-Brise was a cricketer below first-class play level. He made one appearance making 27 runs at county level for Shropshire in 1904, while playing at club level for Ellesmere.[5]
Ruggles-Brise was a landowner and was the owner of Spains Hall in Finchingfield, Essex, which had been inherited by his father, Archibald Weyland Ruggles-Brise, on the death of his own father, the politician Samuel Ruggles-Brise.
He married twice. Firstly, in 1906, to Agatha Gurney (1881–1937), daughter of John Henry Gurney Jr., a member of the Gurney family of Keswick Hall, Norfolk. Secondly, in 1939, to Lucy Barbara Pym MBE (1895–1979), daughter of Walter Ruthven Pym, Bishop of Bombay.[6]
Following his death in May 1942 aged 59, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Colonel Sir John Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet.
In the 1935 Jubilee Honours List, he was made a Baronet, of Spains Hall, in Essex.[7][8]