HAMPDEN, HENRY BOUVERIE WILLIAM BRAND, 1ST VISCOUNT' (1812-1892), speaker of the House'An earlier viscountcy was bestowed in 1776 on Robert Hampden Trevor, 4th Baron Trevor (1706-1783), a great-grandson of the daughter of John Hampden, the patriot; it became extinct in 1824 by the death of the 3rd viscount.
of Commons, was the second son of the 21st Baron Dacre, and descended from John Hampden, the patriot, in the female line; the barony of Dacre devolved on him in 1890, after he had been created Viscount Hampden in 1884. He entered parliament as a Liberal in 1852, and for some time was chief whip of his party. He was speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884. His term of office is memorable for his action on Feb. 2, 1881, in refusing further debate on W. E. Forster's Coercion bill—a step which led to the formal introduction of the closure into parliamentary procedure. He died on March 14, 1892.