Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath

Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath (1908)

Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath KP , GCVO , GCVO , PC (I), JP (born July 31, 1841 - † October 11, 1929 ) was a British diplomat , politician and nobleman who served the House of Lords between 1887 and 1929 ( House of Lords ) and was the last Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin from 1898 until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 .

Life

Family background and diplomat

Reginald Brabazon was the third child of the politician William Brabazon , who between 1832 and 1835 and again from 1837 and 1841 represented the constituency of County Dublin as a member of the House of Commons and in 1841 as the 11th Earl of Meath became a member of the House of Lords, as well his wife Harriot Brooke, daughter of Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet. His older sister Kathleen Harriot Brabazon died unmarried on February 15, 1930. His older brother Jacques Le Normand Brabazon died in August 1844 at the age of only five, so that he himself became a candidate for the title ( Heir Presumptive ).

In 1863 Brabazon joined the Foreign Office and was accepted into the diplomatic service in 1866. After he was first second secretary at the legation at the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main , he became second secretary at the legation at the North German Confederation in Berlin in 1866 , before becoming second secretary at the legation in the Netherlands in 1870 . In 1873 he was last secretary of the legation at the legation in Greece . He was then sheriff of County Wicklow in 1883 and then from 1883 to 1901 aide-de-camp of Queen Victoria for militia affairs.

Earl of Meath and Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin

After the death of his father, Brabazon inherited on May 26, 1887 the titles created in the Peerage of Ireland as 12th Earl of Meath and 13th Lord Brabazon, Baron Ardee, in County Louth . Through the also inherited and created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom hereditary title ( Hereditary Peerage ) as 3rd Baron Chaworth, of Eaton Hall, in the County of Hereford , he became a member of the House of Lords , which he held up to his Death on October 11, 1929 for 42 years. On July 9, 1887, he was also Colonel of Honor of the 5th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers .

At the same time he became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland (PCI) in 1887 and belonged between 1889 and 1892 and again from 1898 to 1901 as Alderman of the London County Council (LCC), the administration of the County of London created in 1889 . On March 27, 1896 he became Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John (KGStJ).

On May 12, 1898 Brabazon succeeded Ion Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick as Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin and held this position until the establishment of the Irish Free State on December 6, 1922. Furthermore, he was also Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John (KJStJ) on August 2, 1899. At the same time he was after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 Militia aide-de-camp of King Edward VII. In addition, he served temporarily as a magistrate ( justice of the peace ) of County Dublin and County Wicklow . In 1902 he became Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland and held this post until his replacement by Bernard Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown in 1906. For his services there he was knighted on April 13, 1905, Knight of St. Patrick (KP) on June 21 In 1908 he was again Colonel of Honor of the 5th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers . In addition, he was Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1920 and also Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) on June 2, 1923 .

Marriage and offspring

On January 7, 1868, Brabazon married Mary Jane Maitland, whose father was Admiral Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale, inter alia between 1860 and 1862 Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy in the Pacific Ocean ( Pacific Station ) and later from 1866 to 1873 First and Principal Naval Aide -de-camp was.

From this marriage there were four sons and two daughters. The eldest son Reginald Le Normand Brabazon took part in the Second Boer War and World War I as an officer in the Irish Guards and was promoted to Brigadier General in 1919 . After the death of his father, he inherited the title of 13th Earl of Meath and the subordinate titles. He was married to Aileen May Wyndham-Quin, daughter of Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl .

His second eldest son Arthur Lauderdale Le Normand Brabazon served as captain in the 5th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers , while his third eldest son Claud Maitland Patrick Brabazon also took part in the Second Boer War and World War I as an officer in the Irish Guards and most recently as a lieutenant colonel with the Royal Air Force served. His eldest daughter, Mary Florence Brabazon, was married to Lieutenant Colonel Harold Edward Sherwin Holt from 1904 until his death in 1932. The youngest son Ernest William Maitland Molyneux Brabazon served as captain of the Coldstream Guards in World War I and died on June 17, 1915 in combat in France . The youngest daughter Violet Constance Maitland Brabazon was married to James Grimston, 4th Earl of Verulam , from 1909 until her death in 1936 .

Web links

• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath on thepeerage.com , accessed July 15, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25719, HMSO, London, July 8, 1887, p. 3689 ( PDF , accessed July 15, 2016, English).
2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26725, HMSO, London, March 27, 1896, p. 1961 ( PDF , accessed July 15, 2016, English).
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27105, HMSO, London, August 4, 1899, p. 4833 ( PDF , accessed July 15, 2016, English).
4. ↑ KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK in Leigh Rayment Peerage
5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 28205, HMSO, London, December 15, 1908, p. 9562 ( PDF , accessed June 30, 2016, English).
6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 32830, HMSO, London, June 1, 1923, p. 3947 ( PDF , accessed July 15, 2016, English).

predecessor	Office	successor
William Brabazon	Earl of Meath 1887-1929	Reginald Le Normand Brabazon