Nicholas Knatchbull

Nicholas Timothy Charles Knatchbull (18 November 1964–27 August 1979), styled "The Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull", was the son of the 7th Baron Brabourne and his wife, formerly The Hon. Patricia Mountbatten (now the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma) and was the twin brother of Timothy Knatchbull.

He was killed at the age of 14 by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army at Donegal Bay, along with his maternal grandfather, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and paternal grandmother, the Dowager Baroness Brabourne. [ [http://www.nicholasknatchbullmemorial.com/nicholas_knatchbull_memorial_plaque.htm Nicholas Knatchbull Memorial] ] [ [http://www.dragonschool.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=118 The Dragon School, Oxford] ] On 23 November 1979, Thomas McMahon was convicted of the murder of Knatchbull and the other occupants of the boat. He was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/27/newsid_2511000/2511545.stm IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten] — BBC News On This Day] [A Secret History of the IRA, Ed Moloney, 2002. (PB) ISBN 0-393-32502-4 (HB) ISBN 0-71-399665-X p.176]

He was also descended from Edward Knight (né Austen), brother of English novelist Jane Austen.

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