Ulric Thynne

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Ulric Oliver Thynne DSO CMG CVO ( July 6, 1871 - September 30, 1957 ) was a British officer and polo player. As a military man he received several high awards.

Life

Ulric Thynne came from a branch of the Thynne family , he was a grandson of the 3rd Marquess of Bath and the youngest child of Lord Henry Thynne and Lady Ulrica Frederica St. Maur Seymour. After the death of his grandmother Harriet Baring, the widowed Marchioness of Bath, he inherited her widow's residence at Muntham Court near Findon in Sussex in 1892 . Thynne attended Charterhouse School and then joined the British Army . He attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and served as a lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps . In 1895 he took part in the campaign to Chitral , located on the border with Afghanistan . During the Boer War in 1900 he was mentioned in despatches , in 1901 he received the Distinguished Service Order . During the First World War he led the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, first as a lieutenant colonel and later as a colonel, and was again mentioned in despatches. In addition, he was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1917 and the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1918. From 1922 he served in the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms . In 1938 he became Colonel of Honor of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. In 1946 he received the rank of Commander of the Royal Victorian Order .

Thynne was a successful polo player as a young officer. In 1903 he won the Roehampton Trophy with the Magpies team .

Family and offspring

His first marriage was on May 16, 1899, Marjory Wormald († 1950), a daughter of Edward Wormald. He had four children with her:

  • Oliver St. Maur Thynne (1901–1978)
  • Edward Wormald Thynne (1905-1925)
  • Brian Sheridan Thynne (1907–1985)
  • Ulrica Marjory Thynne (1911-1999)

His first wife died in 1950. A year later, on December 19, 1951, he married Elspeth Stiven Tullis († 1955), the widow of 1st Baron Invernairn, for the second time .

literature

  • THYNNE, Col. Ulric Oliver , Who Was Who, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014, accessed on September 6, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Worthing History: A family affair. Retrieved October 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Horace A Laffaye: The polo encyclopedia . McFarland, Jefferson 2015. ISBN 978-0-7864-9577-1 , p. 367
personal data
SURNAME Thynne, Ulric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thynne, Ulric Oliver (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military and polo player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1871
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1957