Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury as Lord Lieutenant of Belfast (painting by John Lavery , circa 1910)

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury KP GCVO GCStJ CBE PC (born August 31, 1869 - March 25, 1961 ), was a British nobleman who was Lord Lieutenant of Belfast between 1904 and 1911 and Lord Lieutenant from 1911 to 1916 of County Antrim and last was Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dorset between 1916 and 1952 . He was also Lord Steward of the Household from 1922 to 1936 .

Life

Family origin

Ashley-Cooper was the fifth of six children and the only son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury , and his wife Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina Chichester, daughter of George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall .

His eldest sister Mildred Georgiana Ashley was the wife of George Higginson Allsopp , who represented the constituency of Worcester as a member of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party between 1885 and 1906 . His second oldest sister Margaret Emily Ashley-Cooper was married to Theophilus Basil Percy Levett, a son of the House of Commons Theophilus John Levett . His third oldest sister Evelyn Harriet Ashley-Cooper was her first marriage from 1889 to his death in 1903 with James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baron Magheramorne, and in her second marriage between 1905 and her death in 1931 with Hugo Baring, who served as a major in various cavalry regiments , Director of Westminster Bank and who was a son of banker Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke . The fourth oldest sister Susan Violet Ashley was in turn the wife of Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar and 14th Earl of Kellie , who was one of the Great Officers of State of Scotland between 1935 and 1944 as Lord Clerk Register . His only younger sister, Ethel Maud Ashley-Cooper, was married to Vice Admiral George Warrander , who was Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy Forces in the East Indies between 1907 and 1909 and later Commander in Chief of the Naval Base in Devonport between March and December 1916 .

Earl of Shaftesbury and military career

After his father's suicide on April 13, 1886, at the age of 16, Anthony Ashley-Cooper inherited the title created on April 23, 1672 in the Peerage of England as 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, as well as the subordinate hereditary, also conferred in the Peerage of England Nobility title as 9th Baron Ashley and 9th Baron Cooper as well as the title created in the Baronetage of England as 10th Baronet, of Rockbourne . Upon reaching the age of 21, he was also formally a member of the House of Lords on August 31, 1890 , to which he belonged for 71 years until his death on March 25, 1961.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper began a military career during this time in 1889 and was second lieutenant in the cavalry regiment 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) in 1890 , where he was promoted to lieutenant on June 10, 1891 . He served from 1895 to 1899 as an aide-de-camp of the Governor of Victoria , Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey , and also received his promotion to at this time in 1898 Captain . In 1899 he retired from active military service after ten years of service and became a reserve officer with the rank of captain in the reserve unit Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry on January 24, 1900 .

Lord Lieutenant of Belfast and Antrim

Ashley-Cooper acted between 1901 and 1910 as Chamberlain ( Chamberlain ) of Mary, Princess of Wales , the wife of the then Prince of Wales Georg von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha . He was also involved in Freemasonry and in 1902 became Provincial Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Dorset. As the successor to Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry , he became Lord Lieutenant of Belfast on January 19, 1904 and held this position until his replacement by William Pirrie, 1st Baron Pirrie on November 4, 1911. For his Merit he was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) on March 11, 1906 . As a representative of the Irish Unionist Alliance he also acted as the successor to Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet from 1907 until his replacement by Robert Anderson in 1908 as Lord Mayor of Belfast. He was also Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast from 1909 to 1923 .

After the coronation of King George V as king on May 6, 1910, Ashley-Cooper became chamberlain to the now Queen Mary and performed this task until he was replaced by Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey on November 28, 1922. In 1911 he succeeded Francis Edmund Workman-Macnaghten, 3rd Baronet as Lord Lieutenant of County Antrim and held this office for five years until he was replaced by Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene on June 9, 1916. On July 10, 1911 he was together with Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener , Knight of St. Patrick (KP). He also worked as a lieutenant colonel and honorary colonel of the North Irish Horse volunteer unit, resigned from this rank on January 1, 1913 and was transferred to the special reserve, where he took over the post of commander of a cavalry brigade as a colonel with effect from January 1, 1913 .

World War I, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and Lord Steward of the Household

In 1934 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, donated Belfast Castle, inherited from his father in 1884, to the city of Belfast, which from then on used it for large events

At the beginning of the First World War , Ashley-Cooper was recalled to active military service in 1914 as a Colonel with the temporary rank of Brigadier General ( Temporary Brigadier General ) and served at headquarters. On March 3, 1916, he succeeded Colonel John Mount Batten as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dorset and held this office as representative of the British monarch in that county for 36 years until he was replaced by Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby on September 1, 1952 On March 1, 1919, he retired from active military service and was retired with the honorary rank of Brigadier General ( Honorary Brigadier General ).

In 1919 he also became Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and in 1920 the so-called “ Younger Brouther ” of Trinity House , the beacon administration for England , Wales and the other British territorial waters. On January 1, 1922, he was Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John (KGStJ).

On December 6, 1922, Ashley-Cooper succeeded Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar , Lord Steward of the Household . As such, he was the highest dignitary of the royal court, before the Treasurer of the Household and the Comptroller of the Household , as well as chairman of the Board of Green Cloth , the administrative body (and formerly also the court of justice) of the royal household. At the same time he became a member of the Privy Council (PC) on December 6, 1922 and was also a member of the government until February 15, 1924 by virtue of office. On June 4, 1923 he became Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John (KJStJ). In 1924 he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. He was also on June 22, 1934 Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John (GCStJ).

In 1934 he donated Belfast Castle, inherited from his father in 1884, to the city of Belfast, which from then on used it for large events.

Marriage and offspring

Anthony Ashley-Cooper married Constance Sibell Grosvenor on July 15, 1899, daughter of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, and granddaughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster . This marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters.

The eldest son and heir to the title Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, had died on March 8, 1947 at the age of 46. This led to the fact that when the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury died on March 25, 1961, his grandson, his son Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley , inherited the title of 10th Earl of Shaftesbury .

His eldest daughter, Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper, was married to Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington . His younger daughter, Dorothea Louise Ashley-Cooper, was the wife of Antony Henry Head , a Conservative Party politician who was Secretary of War from 1951 to 1956 and Secretary of Defense from 1956 to 1957, and who was raised to hereditary nobility as Viscount Head in 1960 . Younger son Anthony John Percy Hugh Michael Ashley-Cooper was also a major.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26170, HMSO, London, June 9, 1891, p. 3051 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27186, HMSO, London, January 24, 1900, p. 2611 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27913, HMSO, London, May 15, 1906, p. 3325 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 32771, HMSO, London, November 28, 1922, p. 8410 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  5. ↑ KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK in Leigh Rayment Peerage
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 28678, HMSO, London, January 3, 1913, p. 43 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 28684, HMSO, London, January 24, 1913, p. 591 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 28875, HMSO, London, August 20, 1914, p. 6581 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 29516, HMSO, London, March 21, 1916, p. 3064 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  10. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 31241, HMSO, London, March 19, 1919, p. 3717 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 32715, HMSO, London, June 2, 1922, p. 4227 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  12. ↑ London Gazette . No. 32775, HMSO, London, December 8, 1922, p. 8698 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  13. ↑ London Gazette . No. 32775, HMSO, London, December 8, 1922, p. 8689 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  14. ↑ London Gazette . No. 32909, HMSO, London, February 19, 1924, p. 1453 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 32831, HMSO, London, June 5, 1923, p. 3961 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  16. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34064, HMSO, London, June 26, 1934, p. 4057 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
  17. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27225, HMSO, London, August 31, 1900, p. 5397 ( PDF , accessed July 3, 2016, English).
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
1886-1961 		Anthony Ashley-Cooper
personal data
SURNAME Ashley-Cooper, Anthony, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British brigadier general, politician and peer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1869
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1961