Edward Ruggles-Brise

Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise Bt MC TD JP DL
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	(1882-09-19)19 September 1882 Westminster, London, England
Died	12 May 1942(1942-05-12) (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 Trinity College, Cambridge.^[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]

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Ruggles-Brise

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