Baron Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, first Baron Brabourne (1829–1893), was an English Liberal politician and writer of fairy tales. A great-nephew of Jane Austen, he sat for Sandwich from 1857 to 1880, held office under Palmerston and Gladstone as a lord of the Treasury and under-secretary for the Home Office and the Colonies, and was raised to the peerage in 1880. Beginning with Stories for My Children in 1869 he published more than a dozen volumes of tales, including Moonshine, Queer Folk and River Legends, and in 1884 he edited the first collection of Jane Austen's letters.