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unusual facts about Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne



Lady Brabourne College

The college is named after Lady Brabourne, the wife of then-governor of Bengal, Lord Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, till February 1939.

Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne

Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, GCSI, GCIE, MC (8 May 1895 – 23 February 1939) was a British peer and soldier, the son of the 4th Baron Brabourne.

While Governor of Bombay he laid the foundation stone at the historic Brabourne Stadium cricket ground in 1936 after conducting negotiations for the land with Anthony de Mello of the Cricket Club of India (CCI).


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