Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet

Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, was a British Tory politician and baronet of Mersham Hatch in Kent. He emerged as one of the parliamentary leaders of the Ultra-Tory revolt against Catholic Emancipation in 1828 and 1829, and later held office under Sir Robert Peel as Paymaster of the Forces from 1834 to 1835 and as Paymaster General from 1841 to 1845. He sat in the House of Commons for the county of Kent from 1819 to 1831 and for the new Eastern division of Kent from 1832 to 1845. By his second marriage to Fanny Catherine Knight, niece of the novelist Jane Austen, Knatchbull was the father of Edward, 1st Baron Brabourne, who in 1884 published Austen letters that had passed to him after his mother's death.