Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Earl of Denbigh as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1894

Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond, GCVO, TD, JP, DL (26 May 1859 – 25 November 1939), styled Viscount Feilding from 1865 to 1892, was a British peer and officer.

Biography[]

Lord Feilding was the eldest son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh and Mary (née Berkeley). He succeeded his father as Earl of Denbigh in 1892.[1]

He was an artillery lieutenant at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, 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.[2]

Lord Denbigh was Colonel commandant of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1893 until 1933.[3]

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.[4]

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:[1]

  • Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (12 October 1885 – 10 January 1937)
  • Lt-Cmdr. Hon. Hugh Cecil Robert Feilding (30 December 1886 – 31 May 1916), killed at the Battle of Jutland
  • Lady Mary Alice Clara Feilding (31 March 1888 – 1973), married Sir Cecil Dormer
  • Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935), married Capt. Charles O'Hara Moore and had issue
  • Lady Agnes Mary Mabel Feilding (13 September 1891 – 31 August 1938), a nun
  • Lady Marjorie Mary Winifrede Feilding (4 September 1892 – 1979), married first Capt. Edward Hanly in 1915 (divorced 1923), and second Capt. Robert Arthur Heath in 1923, with issue by both marriages
  • Capt. Hon. Henry Simon Feilding (29 June 1894 – 9 October 1917), killed at the Battle of Passchendaele
  • Lady Clare Mary Cecilia Feilding (23 November 1896 – 1966), married G/Capt. Joseph Smyth-Pigott and had issue
  • Lady Elizabeth Mary Feilding (22 August 1899 – 19??), married Eric Sherbrooke Walker and had issue
  • Lady Victoria Mary Dolores Feilding (29 March 1901 – 19??), married Walter Miles Fletcher and had issue

A widower, the Earl married, secondly, on 12 February 1923 to Kathleen Emmet (d. 13 February 1952), daughter of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, of New York City.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh". The Peerage. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  2. ^ Atteridge, Andrew Hilliard (1913). Famous Modern Battles. Small, Maynard and company. p. 240.
  3. ^ Goold Walker 1986, p. 262
  4. ^ "Latest intelligence - The British Mission to the Pope". The Times. No. 36704. London. 1 March 1902. p. 7.
  5. ^ THE NEW YORK TIMES, Special Cable (23 July 1926). "EARL DEFENDS US IN DEBT ATTACKS; Denbigh Says Mid-West Must Be Told Facts and Decries Abuse and Cartoons". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 June 2021.

Sources[]

  • Goold Walker, G. (1986). The Honourable Artillery Company, 1537–1987. London: Honourable Artillery Company.

External links[]

Military offices
Preceded by
Unknown
 Colonel Commandant and President, Honourable Artillery Company
1903–1933 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Lord-in-waiting
1895–1905 		Succeeded by
Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Denbigh
1892–1939 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Desmond
1892–1939 		Succeeded by
Retrieved from ""