Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane | |
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File:Charles Adeane.jpg | |
Born | November 2, 1863 |
Died | February 11, 1943 | (aged 79)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/branch | British Army |
Rank | Honorary Colonel |
Unit |
4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment Cambridgeshire Volunteer Regiment |
Awards |
Companion of the Order of the Bath Order of St Sava of Serbia Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown |
Relations | Humphrey Lyttelton (grandson) |
Other work |
Justice of the Peace Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire President of the Royal Agricultural Society |
Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane CB, JP (2 November 1863 – 11 February 1943)[1] was a British army officer.
Background[]
Adeane was the only son of the politician Henry John Adeane and his wife Lady Elizabeth Philippa Yorke, eldest daughter Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke.[2] Adeane was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.[3] He received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Cambridge.[2]
Career[]
He served in the British Army and was lieutenant of the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.[3] During this time Adeane was decorated with the Order of St Sava of Serbia.[3] After his retirement he became Honorary Colonel of the Cambridgeshire Volunteer Regiment.[3] Adeane was Justice of the Peace and Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire from 1915 until his death in 1943.[4] In 1917, he was appointed President of the Royal Agricultural Society.[4] In the latter year, Adeane was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath[5] and in 1920, he was invested as an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown.[6]
Family[]
On 23 July 1888, he married Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham, daughter of Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, a son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield.[1] They had seven children, two sons and five daughters.[4] His grandson, through his eldest daughter, Pamela, was the jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "University of Hull - Royal Genealogical Data". http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal28878. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Who is Who 1935. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd.. 1935. pp. 21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. vol. LIX. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd.. pp. 8.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "ThePeerage - Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane". http://thepeerage.com/p8274.htm#i82740. Retrieved 16 December 2006.
- ↑ "No. 29938". 9 February 1917. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29938/page/
- ↑ "No. 31928". 1 June 1920. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31928/page/
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