William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Conservative MP for West Norfolk, 1880–1885, MP for South West Norfolk, 1885–1892, High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1866, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, created 26 August 1892., Conservative Member of Parliament for West Norfolk and South West Norfolk, Knight of Justice of St John, Conservative MP for West Norfolk and South West Norfolk, collector of books, manuscripts and Egyptian antiquities
Dates: 25 April 1835–16 January 1909
Biography
Collector of rare books, manuscripts and Egyptian antiquities, and landed proprietor of Foulden Hall, Didlington Hall and Hackney property. He changed the spelling of the family name to Tyssen-Amherst by royal licence in 1877 and was elevated to the peerage in 1892 with a special remainder to his eldest daughter and her male issue.
Notes / Sources
Complete Peerage, Amherst of Hackney — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/amherst1892.htm
Dictionary of National Biography supplementary account — https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/1912-De-Worms-Henry-1st-Baron-Pirbright-b-Oct-20-1840-d-Jan-09-1903-Dictionary-of-National-Biography-2nd-Supp-Vol-1-ed-Sir-Sidney-Lee-pp-495-496-The-MacMillan-Company-1912.pdf
Wikimedia Commons, Arms of Baron Amherst of Hackney — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arms_of_Baron_Amherst_of_Hackney.svg
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Tyssen-Amherst of Foulden, Didlington and Hackney
Father: William George Tyssen-Amherst, formerly William George Daniel-Tyssen
Mother: Mary Fountaine
Spouse(s): Margaret Susan Mitford
Children / next generation: Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney; Sybil Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; Florence Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; Margaret Mitford Tyssen-Amherst; Alicia Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, later Baroness Rockley; Geraldine Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; Beatrice Margaret Tyssen-Amherst
Armorial Registry
Tyssen-Amherst of Didlington and Foulden — William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, and the name-and-arms succession
Branch: Tyssen-Amherst of Didlington Hall and Foulden Hall
Issued / recorded: 1852
Amherst of Hackney — William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, ancestral pre-peerage achievement
Branch: Tyssen-Amherst of Foulden, Didlington and Hackney
Issued / recorded: 1877
Tyssen-Amherst of Didlington — William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, personal hatchment achievement
Branch: Tyssen-Amherst of Didlington and Foulden
Issued / recorded: 26 August 1892
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