| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable | ||||||||||||
| The Lord Barnard | |||||||||||||
| Office: | Member of the House of Lords | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Lord Temporal | ||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 28 December 1918 | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | The 9th Baron Barnard | ||||||||||||
| Term End: | 19 October 1964 | ||||||||||||
| Successor: | The 11th Baron Barnard | ||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Christopher William Vane | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 28 October 1888 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Raby Castle, County Durham, England | ||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne | ||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Military officer | ||||||||||||
| Father: | Henry de Vere Vane | ||||||||||||
| Mother: | Lady Catharine Sarah Cecil | ||||||||||||
| Relatives: | Henry Cecil Vane (brother) Harry John Neville Vane (son) | ||||||||||||
| Education: | Eton College | ||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||
| Children: | 3 | ||||||||||||
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Christopher William Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, (28 October 1888 – 19 October 1964[1]), was a British peer and military officer.[1]
Lord Barnard was born on 28 October 1888,[1] the second son of Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard, and his wife, the Lady Catharine Sarah Cecil, who was daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter,[2] at Barnard Castle in County Durham.[1]
Following in the footsteps of his father, he attended Eton College,[2] but unlike many of his ancestors studied at Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] for a B.A.[3] rather than attending the University of Oxford. It was at Cambridge that he joined the Freemasons, being initiated into Isaac Newton University Lodge.[4]
Upon the completion of his degree, he entered the armed services, participating in World War I[3] as a major in the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry[2] in which he was awarded the Military Cross[2] and wounded in action twice.[1] The citation for his MC, which appeared in The London Gazette in July 1918, reads as follows:
His eldest brother, the Hon. Henry Cecil Vane, heir apparent to the barony of Barnard, also served in the Great War[3] but was subsequently wounded and died of those wounds shortly thereafter in 1917,[5] leaving his younger brother heir apparent to the title of Baron Barnard.[5]
In 1922, Lord Barnard gained the rank of major in the 6th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry[1] and served with distinction in the battalion until 1931.[2]
Upon his retirement from the armed services, Lord Barnard took a number of roles, mostly in the service of County Durham.[1] Between 1920 and 1963 he was Master,[2] and, subsequently, Joint Master[1] of the Zetland Hunt and between the years 1958 and 1964 the Lord Lieutenant of Durham.[3] He was also a County Commissioner for the Durham Boy Scouts Association.[2] He was a keen horticulturist.[6]
He was a member of Brooks's gentleman's club[2] [3] and resided at Raby Castle.[2] Unlike his father, he did not keep a London season home at 20 Belgrave Square, SW.[2]
On 14 October 1920 he married Sylvia Mary Straker[2] the daughter of Hubert Straker, at St Agatha's, Gilling West, and had three children:[2]
Lord Barnard received many honours. In 1930 he was invested as a Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George,[2] and gained the honorary rank of Colonel in the service of the 6th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry, his former unit.[1] He was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1955.[2] [3]
In 1964 he gave up the Lord Lieutenancy of County Durham. Notably, a few weeks before his death[6] he divested himself of all but 1713acres of the 53000acres Raby estate.[6] He also resigned from the presidency of the County Territorial Army and Air Force Association.[6] He died on 19 October 1964[3] at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne.[6]
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