Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre
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Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre (25 March 1774 – 21 March 1851) was a British peer and Whig politician.
Dacre was the eldest son of Thomas Brand, of The Hoo, Hertfordshire, and Gertrude, 19th Baroness Dacre, daughter of the Hon. Charles Roper.
Military career
He raised and commanded the Kimpton Volunteer Rifles, a part-time unit of the Volunteer Corps formed in 1803. In 1808 the volunteers were replaced by the Local Militia, and Brand commanded the Midland Battalion, Hertfordshire Local Militia, based at Hitchin.[1]
Political career
Dacre entered Parliament for Helston in January 1807, a seat he only held until May of the same year, when he was returned for Hertfordshire. He continued to represent this constituency until 1819, when he succeeded his mother in the barony of Dacre and entered the House of Lords.
