Henry Hanbury-Tracy

{{Short description|British Whig politician}}

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The Honourable Henry Hanbury-Tracy (11 April 1802 – 6 April 1889){{Rayment-hc|b|5|date=March 2012}} was a British Whig politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1838.

Hanbury-Tracy was born at Toddington, Gloucestershire, a younger son of Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, by the Honourable Henrietta Susanna, only child and heiress of Henry Tracy, 8th Viscount Tracy. Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, was his elder brother.[http://thepeerage.com/p22109.htm#i221089 thepeerage.com Henry Hanbury-Tracy]

He was elected at the 1837 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgnorth,{{cite book

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}} but resigned from Parliament the following year by becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

Hanbury-Tracy married Rosamond Ann Myrtle, daughter of Robert William Shirley, Viscount Tamworth, in 1841. On 2 September 1852, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Montgomeryshire by his brother,{{London Gazette|issue=21363|page=2591|date=1 October 1852}} and was promoted by him to major of the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia on 3 September.{{London Gazette|issue=21355|page=2386|date=3 September 1852}}

Hanbury-Tracy was appointed lieutenant-colonel commandant of that regiment on 1 May 1854, succeeding Sir John Conroy, 1st Baronet.{{London Gazette|issue=21549|page=1365|date=2 May 1854}} However, he resigned his militia commission on 25 June 1855.{{London Gazette|issue=21735|page=2458|date=26 June 1855}} He died in April 1889 at age 86.