Granville Roland Fortescue

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Granville Roland Fortescue

Granville Roland "Rolly" Fortescue (born October 12, 1875 in New York City , † April 21, 1952 ) was an American officer, a rough rider , who served with his cousin, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt , in Cuba and his advisor during in his first administration as US President , later a journalist and 1920 war correspondent for the London Standard during the Rif War in Spanish Morocco . He wrote for the London Daily Telegraph during World War I and the Spanish Civil War .

Career

Fortescue attended Yale College and then the University of Pennsylvania . In 1898 he dropped out of college and then volunteered for 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry . He graduated from Army Staff College in 1904 . Fortescue held the rank of captain . During the Spanish-American War he was wounded as a rough rider at the Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba and served in the Philippines . He was then stationed in Japan as a US military attaché during the Russo-Japanese War . Along with other Western military attachés, he had two complementary missions, supporting the Japanese and observing Japanese troops in the field during the Russo-Japanese War. During the First World War he served as an artillery officer. Then he finished his military service. After his death in 1952 he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. and is the only Roosevelt to be buried there.

family

Granville Roland Fortescue was the son of Congressman Robert Roosevelt (1829-1906) and his lover Marion Theresa "Minnie" O'Shea Fortescue (1849-1902). His father married his mother after the death of his first wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" Thorn Ellis Roosevelt (1830-1887) and then adopted him and his two siblings Kenyon (1870-1939) and Maude (1880-1961). He was also the nephew of Theodore Roosevelt senior (1831-1878), the cousin of US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and the grandcousin of the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).

On June 4, 1910, Fortescue married Grace Hubbard Bell (1883–1979), a niece of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell and an heiress of the Bell Telephone Company fortune. Also present at the wedding reception was Captain Archibald Butt , who served with Fortescue as Presidential Advisor in the White House .

The couple had three daughters. An alleged rape of the daughter Thalia Massie (1911-1963) involved his wife in 1932 in Hawaii in a murder trial (" Massie affair "). She then returned to her quiet life with her husband, moving with him between their homes on Long Island and Palm Beach , depending on the season . Another daughter worked as an actress under her stage name Helene Whitney (1914-1990).

Selected Works

During his activity as a journalist he wrote the following works:

  • 1914: At the Front with Three Allies: My adventures in the Great War, London: A. Melrose, Ltd.
  • 1915: Russia, the Balkans and the Dardanelles, London: A. Melrose, Ltd. OCLC: 1562062
  • 1915: What of the Dardanelles ?: An Analysis, London: Hodder and Stoughton. OCLC: 2736904
  • 1916: Fore-armed: How to Build a Citizen Army, Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. OCLC: 406647
  • 1917: France Bears the Burden, New York: Macmillan. OCLC: 1183757
  • 1937: Front Line and Deadline: The Experiences of a War Correspondent, New York: GP Putnam's Sons. OCLC: 987696

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Spinzia, Raymond E .: Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates And Their Country Homes , 2006 ( excerpt from page 2 )
  2. ^ Price, Warren C .: Literature of Journalism , University of Minnesota Press, 1999, ISBN 9781452912455 , page 90, limited preview in Google Book Search
  3. ↑ a b c d Spinzia, Raymond E .: Those other Roosevelt: The Fortescue , The Oyster Bay Historical Society's The Freeholder, 2006
  4. ^ A b c d e Renehan, Edward J .: A Secret Roosevelt , History News Network, February 22, 2003
  5. ↑ John Chapman and Ian Nish: On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese War - Part I , Paper No. IS / 2004/475, 2004, page 53, item 42
  6. ↑ a b c Granville Roland Fortescue on the Arlington National Cemetery website
  7. ^ Robert Roosevelt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
  8. ↑ Elizabeth Ellis Roosevelt in the database of Find a Grave (English)
  9. ^ Robert B. Roosevelt's Will; Testator's Three Children Inherit Most of the Large Estate , The New York Times, June 20, 1906
  10. ^ Society at Home and Abroad: The Fortescue-Bell Wedding in Washington , The New York Times, May 29, 1910
  11. ^ The American Experience: The Massie Affaire
  12. ^ Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Volume 19, Part 2 , New York Public Library, 1915, 618
  13. ^ Fortescue, Granville Roland: Russia, the Balkans and the Dardanelles , A. Melrose, Limited, 1915
  14. ^ Fortescue, Granville Roland: What of the Dardanelles ?: An Analysis , 1915
  15. ^ Fortescue, Granville Roland: Fore-armed: How to Build a Citizen Army , John C. Winston Company, 1916
  16. ^ Fortescue, Granville Roland: France Bears the Burden , Macmillan, 1917
  17. ^ Fortescue, Granville Roland: Front Line and Deadline: The Experiences of a War Correspondent , GP Putnam's Sons, 1937

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SURNAME Fortescue, Granville Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fortescue, Rolly (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1952