Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore

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Winchester Cathedral, memorial for the 5th Viscount Avonmore

Captain Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore (11 February 1859 – 13 February 1885), was an Anglo-Irish peer and an officer in the 37th Foot, which was renamed as the Hampshire Regiment in 1881.

Life[]

Avonmore was born at Edinburgh,[1] the son of William Yelverton (later Lord Avonmore) by his marriage to Emily Marianne Ashworth, the daughter of Major-General Sir Charles Ashworth, who had previously been married to Edward Forbes, a botanist, by whom she had several children. This marriage was not welcome to Yelverton's family.[2]

He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in Berkshire, and on 30 January 1878 was commissioned into the 37th Foot as a second lieutenant. In February 1879 he was promoted to lieutenant.[1]

He became a British Army instructor in musketry and died of enteric fever at Kirbekan in 1885, while serving in the Sudan.[1] A plaque commemorating him can be found in Winchester Cathedral.

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c Frederick Boase, Modern English Biography: A-H (1892), p. 1864.
  2. ^ Chloë Schama, Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal (2011), p. 57.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Avonmore
1883–1885
Succeeded by

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