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Alfred de Bathe Brandon was born in 1809 in London, the son of Henry Brandon. He was educated for the law and practised in London for a while, where he became interested in the colonising schemes of E. G. Wakefield. In August 1840 he arrived at Wellington in the New Zealand Company's ship London, and soon built up a flourishing legal practice. In the later 1840s he was an active member of the Wellington Settlers' Constitutional Association. When representative institutions were granted, Brandon was elected to the Wellington Provincial Council, remaining a member until its abolition. He acted as Provincial Solicitor during the whole of Featherston's long superintendency, but retired from office a few days after Fitzherbert was elected.
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Her husband replaced her quickly enough - and, as was typical of Brandon, with aplomb. He decided to marry his son's betrothed, Catherine Willoughby his ward and the daughter of Lord Willoughby de Eresby. She was a baroness in her own right, heiress to 15000 ducats a year. She was ... just fourteen-years-old, the same age as his youngest child. Brandon himself was almost fifty. But he needed money badly and she was very rich; he married her quite rapidly (exact date unknown).
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Henry was a member of the Way Out West Tent for 20 years, until his death in 1990. He attended several International Conventions of the Sons of the Desert. An article entitled "Revisiting Silas Barnaby" serves as further tribute to Henry.
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