Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron

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Brigadier General Adlercron in 1917.
Arms of Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron

Brigadier Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron, CMG, DSO*, JP, DL (5 July 1873 – 12 June 1966) was a British Army officer and local politician.

Early life and family[]

Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron was born on 5 July 1873, the second son of George Rothe Ladeveze Adlercron (died 1884), of , County Meath, and his wife Aloÿse Blanche Lilias, second daughter of Baron Godefroi de Blonay, of Vernand, Lausanne.[1][2] In 1910, Adlercron married Hester (died 1939), younger daughter of John Chandler Bancroft (died 1901), of Boston in the United States, and had four daughters:[3][4] Lillias Nina Aloyse (born 1911), Meliora Lavinia (born 1912), Hester Elizabeth (born 1913) and Pauline Aymee Margaret (born 1915).[5] Meliora died in 1930 from injuries sustained in a motoring accident;[6] in 1936, the youngest daughter, Pauline, married John Christopher Morrell Blackie, son of Ernest Blackie, Bishop of Grimsby.[7]

Career[]

Army[]

After schooling at Eton,[1] Adlercron was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles on 12 February 1892.[8] Following a promotion to Lieutenant in 1893,[9] he was transferred at that rank to The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders on 2 June 1894 after Lt F. A. MacFarlan was appointed Adjutant.[10] He took part in the Nile Expedition and Second Boer War, being mentioned in dispatches in both conflicts.[1] Promotion to Captain followed in 1899,[11] before Adlercron was seconded to be an Adjutant in the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, part of the Territorial Force.[12][13] He was appointed a Brigade Major that October,[14] before promotion to Major two years later.[15]

Adlercron served in Europe during World War I.[1] He was made a Brigade Major in The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in August 1914,[16] and the following October was promoted to temporary Lieutenant Colonel, commanding a territorial unit,[17] the 6th West Riding Regiment. He subsequently commanded 148th and .[1] By 1916, he was a temporary Brigadier General and was promoted that December to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel.[18] By the time the war was over, he had been mentioned in dispatches seven times, received the Distinguished Service Order (and bar), and been appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.[1] He was placed on the retired list in March 1920 and granted the honorary rank of Brigadier.[19] He was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.[1]

Later life[]

Adlercron was a Justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire.[1] In 1946, he was elected onto Kesteven County Council for the Welby division;[20] he was returned again in 1949,[21] and 1952.[22] He died on 12 June 1966.[1]

Heraldry[]

Adlercron bore the following coat of arms: Quarterly 1 and 4 Argent and eagle displayed wings inverted Sable langued Gules membered and ducally crowned Or; 2 and 3 Argent a chevron in point embowed between in chief two mullets and in base a lion rampant all Gules. Quarters 1 and 4 represented the family of Adlercron, while the other two were for Trapaud.[3]

Likeness[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Adlercron, Brig.-Gen. Rodolph Ladeveze", Who Was Who (online edition), Oxford University Press, 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. ^ The Genealogist, vol. 22 (1906), p. 260
  3. ^ a b Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, 7th edition, vol. 1 (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1929), p. 14
  4. ^ Bancroft v Bancroft (68 R.I. 406, R.I. 1942). CaseText. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  5. ^ Frederick A. Virkus and Albert Nelson Marquis, The Abridged Compendium of America Genealogy, vol. 1 (1925), p. 80
  6. ^ "Funeral of Miss Adlercron", Lincolnshire Echo, 8 October 1930, p. 6
  7. ^ "Society wedding at Heydor", Grantham Journal, 24 October 1936, p. 6
  8. ^ London Gazette, 26 February 1892 (issue 26262), p. 1109
  9. ^ London Gazette, 3 October 1893 (issue 26446), p. 5555
  10. ^ London Gazette, 1 June 1894 (issue 26518), p. 3192
  11. ^ London Gazette, 29 December 1899 (issue 27149), p. 8657
  12. ^ London Gazette, 2 June 1911 (issue 28500), p. 4184
  13. ^ London Gazette, 9 June 1911 (issue 28502), p. 4344
  14. ^ London Gazette, 3 October 1911 (issue 28538), p. 7199
  15. ^ London Gazette, 25 March 1913 (issue 28704), p. 2237
  16. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 August 1914 (issue 28885), p. 6887
  17. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 26 February 1916 (issue 29490), p. 2185
  18. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 29 December 1916 (issue 29886), p. 16
  19. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 10 March 1920 (issue 31818, p. 2995)
  20. ^ "Returning officer had to give casting vote". Lincolnshire Echo. 4 March 1946. p. 4
  21. ^ "Nominations yesterday". Grantham Journal. 25 March 1949. p. 1
  22. ^ "County Council Elections". Sleaford Gazette. 11 March 1952. p. 1
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