The Right Honourable
The Earl of Denbigh
GCVO TD JP DL ADC
Portrait as Lt. Colonel of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company, 1897
Lord-in-waiting
In office
1897–1905
MonarchsQueen Victoria
Edward VII
Personal details
Born(1859-05-26)26 May 1859
Whitford, Flintshire, Wales
Died25 November 1939(1939-11-25) (aged 80)
Surrey, England
Spouses
Hon. Cecilia Mary Clifford
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(m. 1884; died 1919)​
Kathleen Emmet
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(m. 1923)​
Parent(s)Rudolph Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh
Mary Berkeley
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Branch/service British Army
RankColonel-Commandant
CommandsHonourable Artillery Company
Royal Horse Artillery
Battles/wars
The Earl of Denbigh as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1894

Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond, GCVO, TD, DL, JP, ADC (26 May 1859 – 25 November 1939), styled Viscount Feilding from 1865 to 1892, was a British Army officer and peer.

Biography

Lord Feilding was born at Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, the eldest son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh and Mary (née Berkeley). He succeeded his father as Earl of Denbigh in 1892.[1]

He gained the rank of captain in the Royal Horse Artillery. He was present at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in 1882, where he laid the horse artillery gun that hit the third railway train on the line there and prevented the further retreat of the Egyptians.[2] He was later awarded the Order of the Nile, 3rd Class by Sultan Hussein Kamel.[1]

Lord Denbigh was Colonel commandant of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1903 until 1933.[3] He held the office of Conservative Parliamentary Lord-in-waiting between 1897 and 1905.[1]

In March 1902, Lord Denbigh was head of a mission sent by the British government to congratulate Pope Leo XIII upon entering on the 25th year of his Pontificate.[4] He was aide-de-camp to George V from 1911 to 1926.[5][1]

Personal life

On 24 September 1884, the then Viscount Fielding married Hon. Cecilia Mary Clifford (1860–1919), daughter of Charles Hugh Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh and the Hon. Agnes Louisa Catherine (née Petre). They had three sons and seven daughters:

A widower, the Earl married, secondly, on 12 February 1923 to Kathleen Emmet (d. 13 February 1952), daughter and heiress of Thomas Addis Emmet, of New York City, a scion of the family of United Irishmen leaders Thomas Addis Emmet and Robert Emmet.[7][8]

Honours

Foreign honours

The latter honour entitled Lord Denbigh to be addressed as The Most Excellent.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Burke's Peerage. p. 1088. doi:10.5118/bpbk.2003. ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9.
  2. ^ Atteridge, Andrew Hilliard (1913). Famous Modern Battles. Small, Maynard and company. p. 240.
  3. ^ Goold Walker 1986, p. 262
  4. ^ "Latest intelligence – The British Mission to the Pope". The Times. No. 36704. London. 1 March 1902. p. 7.
  5. ^ Kipling, Rudyard (1990). The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. University of Iowa Press. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-87745-898-2.
  6. ^ a b c Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Burke's Peerage. p. 1089. doi:10.5118/bpbk.2003. ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9.
  7. ^ THE NEW YORK TIMES, Special Cable (23 July 1926). "EARL DEFENDS US IN DEBT ATTACKS; Denbigh Says Mid-West Must Be Told Facts and Decries Abuse and Cartoons". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  8. ^ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1976). Burkes Irish Family Records. Burke's Peerage. p. 387. doi:10.5118/bifr.1976. ISBN 978-0-85011-050-0.
  9. ^ Satow, Ernest Mason (1932). A guide to diplomatic practice. London, Longmans. p. 249.

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Military offices Preceded byUnknown Colonel Commandant and President, Honourable Artillery Company 1903–1933 Succeeded byViscount Galway Political offices Preceded byThe Earl of Ranfurly Lord-in-waiting 1895–1905 Succeeded byThe Earl Granville Peerage of England Preceded byRudolph William Basil Feilding Earl of Denbigh 1892–1939 Succeeded byWilliam Rudolph Stephen Feilding Peerage of Ireland Preceded byRudolph William Basil Feilding Earl of Desmond 1892–1939 Succeeded byWilliam Rudolph Stephen Feilding
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