Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh explained

The Earl of Denbigh
Office:Lord-in-waiting
Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
Honorific Suffix:GCVO TD JP DL ADC
Rank:Colonel-Commandant
Commands:Honourable Artillery Company
Royal Horse Artillery
Birth Date:1859 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Whitford, Flintshire, Wales
Death Place:Surrey, England
Battles:
Termstart:1897
Termend:1905
Spouse:
    Parents:Rudolph Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh
    Mary Berkeley

    Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond, (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.

    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.[1] He was later awarded the Order of the Nile, 3rd Class by Sultan Hussein Kamel.

    Lord Denbigh was Colonel commandant of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1903 until 1933.[2] He held the office of Conservative Parliamentary Lord-in-waiting between 1897 and 1905.

    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.[3] He was aide-de-camp to George V from 1911 to 1926.[4] [5]

    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]

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    Notes and References

    1. Book: Atteridge, Andrew Hilliard. Famous Modern Battles. Small, Maynard and company. 1913. 240.
    2. Goold Walker 1986, p. 262
    3. Latest intelligence – The British Mission to the Pope . 1 March 1902 . 7 . 36704.
    4. Book: Kipling, Rudyard . The Letters of Rudyard Kipling . 1990 . University of Iowa Press . 978-0-87745-898-2 . 286 . en.
    5. Book: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . 2003 . Burke's Peerage . 978-0-9711966-2-9 . Mosley . Charles . 1088. 10.5118/bpbk.2003 .
    6. Book: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . 2003 . Burke's Peerage . 978-0-9711966-2-9 . Mosley . Charles . 1089. 10.5118/bpbk.2003 .
    7. News: THE NEW YORK TIMES . Special Cable. EARL DEFENDS US IN DEBT ATTACKS; Denbigh Says Mid-West Must Be Told Facts and Decries Abuse and Cartoons. . 21 June 2021 . . 23 July 1926.
    8. Book: Burkes Irish Family Records . 1976 . Burke's Peerage . 978-0-85011-050-0 . Montgomery-Massingberd . Hugh . 387. 10.5118/bifr.1976 .
    9. Book: Satow, Ernest Mason . A guide to diplomatic practice . 1932 . London, Longmans . 249.