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Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, 12th Baronet JP (9 August 1844 – 30 July 1917) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.

Knatchbull was the second son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, 10th Baronet and his wife Mary Watts-Russell, eldest daughter of Jesse Watts-Russell, MP for Gatton. He was educated at Eton College and worked then as civil servant for the General Post Office. In 1871, he succeeded his older brother Edward as baronet. He entered the British House of Commons in 1875, sitting for East Kent until the following year. Knatchbull was Justice of the Peace for Kent.

Family

Knatchbull married, at Christ church, Folkestone, on 18 March 1902, Margaret Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Charles Taylor, Esq., of Frensham Hill, Surrey, and widow of John Dillon Browne, Esq. Their marriage was childless. He died in 1917 aged 73 and was succeeded by Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, the second son of his cousin Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne, in turn the second son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet.

References

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  4. Walford, Edward (1 January 1860). [KNATCHBULL, Lady] The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byGeorge Watson Milles
Edward Leigh Pemberton 		Member of Parliament for East Kent
1875 – 1876
With: Edward Leigh Pemberton 		Succeeded byWilliam Deedes
Edward Leigh Pemberton
Baronetage of England
Preceded byEdward Knatchbull Baronet
(of Mersham Hatch)
1871–1917 		Succeeded byCecil Knatchbull-Hugessen
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