Of The Hoo, Hertfordshire; the son of Thomas Brand; he was a Whig MP for Hertfordshire (1807-19) and married as his second wife, the poet Barbarina, Lady Dacre, in 1819—the same year he succeeded his mother in the title.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Brand, twentieth lord Dacre:

Sydney Smith to Lord Grey, 24 January 1820 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Lady Caroline Lamb to William Godwin, [September? 1823] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Countess Grey to Frances Ann Taylor, [February 1826] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 15 March 1831 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 June 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 June 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Lady Charlotte Dacre to John Murray, 27 May 1835 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)