Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne

Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne (27 November 1863 – 15 February 1933) was an English cricketer, and later a British peer.

Knatchbull-Hugessen was born in Lowndes Square in Chelsea, the fourth child and second son of Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne and his first wife, Anna Maria Elizabeth ( Southwell). He was educated at Eton College where he was in the cricket XI from 1881 to 1883.

He went to King's College, Cambridge, with a scholarship and won the Pitt Scholarship, graduating with a first class degree in classics in 1886. He was considered to be an "accomplished scholar", was "highly distinguished for the Chancellor's medal" in 1887 and considered "an extraordinarily good modern linguist". He published The Political Evolution the Hungarian Nation in 1908, a text which became "a standard work on the subject".

After graduating, Knatchbull-Hugessen spent a year as a teacher at Eton before training as a barrister, being called to the bar in 1890.