Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough
Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough | |
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| Born | 30 June 1884 |
| Died | 27 August 1927 |
| Occupation | Aristocrat |
| Spouse(s) | Alice Mary Eyre |
| Children | 2 sons, 1 daughter |
| Parent(s) | Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough Mary Elizabeth Dease |
Arthur Edward Joseph Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough OBE TD (30 June 1884 – 27 August 1927)[1] was a British peer.
Early life[]
Arthur Noel was the son of Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough and his wife Mary Elizabeth Dease, (her sister was the writer Alice Dease), and a great-great-grandson of King William IV. He succeeded to the earldom on his father's death in 1926.
Career[]
In 1903 Viscount Campden was commissioned in the Territorial Army Reserve in the Gloucestershire Regiment[2] and fought in France in the First World War as a major. He was decorated with the Territorial Decoration (TD) and was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919.[3] He was Private Chamberlain to Pope Benedict XV and Pope Pius XI.[4]
Gainsborough was a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Rutland.
Personal life and death[]
Gainsborough married Alice Mary Eyre on 10 November 1915. They had three children:[5]
- Lady Maureen Thérèse Josephine Noel (born 7 March 1917, died 25 November 2009), married firstly Charles Walter James Dormer, 15th Baron Dormer and secondly Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes through whom she was the step-mother of Julian Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford.[6]
- Anthony Gerard Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough (born 24 October 1923, died 29 December 2009)
- Hon Gerard Eyre Wriothesley Noel (born 20 November 1926, died 27 July 2016), a former editor of The Catholic Herald.[7]
Gainsborough died on 27 August 1927, aged 43 and was succeeded in the earldom and other titles by his elder son, Anthony.
Ancestry[]
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References[]
- ^ "PEERAGE". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "No. 27566". The London Gazette. 19 June 1903. p. 3855.
- ^ "No. 31377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 May 1919. p. 6985.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage 2000
- ^ The Peerage, entry for 4th Earl of Gainsborough
- ^ The peerage, entry for Peregrine Fellowes
- ^ The Daily Telegraph, obituary of Gerard Noel, published 27 July 2016
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Gainsborough
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