Richard Edgcumbe (courtier)

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Richard John Frederick Edgcumbe MVO ( August 12, 1843 - November 3, 1937 ) was a British courtier and writer.

origin

Richard Edgcumbe came from a sideline of the Edgcumbe family . He was the eldest son of George Edgcumbe and his wife Fanny Shelley, making him a grandson of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe .

Service in the military and in the royal household

Edgcumbe first served in the Royal Navy before joining the British Army . There he served in the 73rd and 52nd regiments and was promoted to lieutenant. After retiring from the army, he was secretary of the National Byron Memorial Committee from 1875 to 1882 . From 1880 he was sergeant-at-arms of Queen Victoria . On the occasion of Prince Narès of Siam's mission in London, he served as his private secretary from 1885 to 1887. After the mission ended, Edgcumbe became private secretary to the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward of the Household . After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 he became sergeant-at-arms of King Edward VII and, after his death in 1910, of King George V until he retired in 1921. For his services he received several awards from the royal family, including the Jubilee Medal in 1887 and the clasp for the Jubilee Medal in 1897. In 1921 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Victorian Order . In addition, he was still serving as justice of the peace for Berkshire and as captain of the militia of Buckinghamshire .

Publications

Edgcumbe wrote several books and numerous magazine articles, including:

  • Byron: the last phase . John Murray, London 1909
  • History of the Byron Memorial . Effingham Wilson, London 1883
  • Edward Trelawny. A biographical sketch . WH Luke, Plymouth 1882

He was also the editor of his mother's diary: Diary of Frances Lady Shelly 1818-1873 , London 1912/13

Family and offspring

Edgcumbe had married Mary Louisa Monck in 1872 , the second daughter of John Bligh Monck and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Yates of Reading . With her he had a son, Kenelm Edgcumbe . After the death of his wife in 1923, he married Henrietta Constance Jones , a daughter of John Jones from Newton-le-Willows , in 1926 . His second marriage was childless and his only child was Kenelm, who inherited the title of Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in 1944 .

Web links

  • EDGCUMBE, Richard John Frederick. In: Who Was Who, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Feb 2015 accessed 11 May 2017
personal data
SURNAME Edgcumbe, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edgcumbe, Richard John Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British courtier and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1843
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1937