Charles Adeane

Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane
Born 2 November 1863
Died 11 February 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.

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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.

Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Viscount Clifden		 Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire
1915 – 1943		 Succeeded by
Richard George Briscoe

References

  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b Who is Who 1935. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd.. 1935. pp. 21. 
  3. ^ a b c d Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. vol. LIX. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd.. pp. 8. 
  4. ^ a b c "ThePeerage - Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane". http://thepeerage.com/p8274.htm#i82740. Retrieved 16 December 2006. 
  5. ^ London Gazette: no. 29938. p. 1458. 9 February 1917. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  6. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31928. p. 6174. 1 June 1920. Retrieved 7 July 2009.