Melville Henry Massue Explained

Melville Henry Massue
Birth Date:1868 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Fulham, Middlesex, England
Death Place:Southwark, London, England

Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de la Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny (26 April 1868 – 6 October 1921) was a British genealogist and author who was twice president of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland. He styled himself the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval.[1]

Biography

Massue was descended from a sister of Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, a Huguenot aristocrat who emigrated to England in 1688 and became a prominent supporter of William of Orange. He was born in London to Colonel Charles Henry Theodore Bruce de Ruvignes and Margaret Melville Moodie, the daughter of a Scottish laird.[2] He succeeded his father as 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th Marquis of Raineval in 1883, though his right to these titles was disputed by the authors of The Complete Peerage.[3] In 1893, he married Rose Amalia Gaminara, with whom he had three children.[2]

Massue was an early member of the Jacobite Order of the White Rose, though he found the sentimental nature of the order restrictive.[4] In 1891, he co-founded the Legitimist Jacobite League with Herbert Vivian and Ruaraidh Erskine as a more political and radical Jacobite society.[5] He served as president from 1893–94 and again from 1897–99.[1] The league was one of the principal organizations driving the Neo-Jacobite Revival of the 1890s. In 1898, he was made a knight of the Order of Charles III by the Duke of Madrid, the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain.

Massue was a prolific author of genealogical works and a committed member of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1902.[6] He died in a London nursing home and was succeeded by his second son, Charles, "Comte de la Caillemotte", his first son having died unexpectedly shortly before the First World War.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ruvigny and Raineval, 9th Marquis of. 2007. Who's Who & Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. subscription.
  2. Book: Massue, Melville Henry. 1906. The Moodie Book. Privately printed. 98–99.
  3. Book: Cokayne, G. E.. Gibbs. Vicary. Doubleday. H. A.. 1926. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. 5. 2nd. London. St Catherine Press. 613.
  4. Book: Guthrie, Neil . The Material Culture of the Jacobites . 12 December 2013 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-04133-2 . 155.
  5. Book: Gardner, Laurence . The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed . registration . Weiser Books . 31 March 2007. 978-1-57863-404-0 .
  6. Book: Addison. Henry Robert. etal. Who's Who. 1903. London. A. & C. Black.
  7. The Times dated 7 October 1921, p. 9, col. C.

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