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Alfred Mordaunt Egerton

Alfred Mordaunt Egerton

English soldier and courtier (1843–1908)

Colonel Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, KCVO, CB (30 March 1843 – 26 May 1908) was an English soldier and courtier.

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Early life and family

Alfred Mordaunt Egerton was born on 30 March 1843, the youngest son of the Rev. Thomas Egerton and his wife, Charlotte, daughter of Sir William Milner, Baronet. In 1878, he married the Honourable Mary Georgina Ormsby-Gore, DStJ, the daughter of William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech; she was a Lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Connaught.[1]

They had four sons:[2]

Military and court career

Egerton was schooled at Eton College between 1856 and 1859.[8] In 1861, he purchased a commission as an ensign in the Rifle Brigade.[9] He served with the 2nd Battalion in India from 1863 to 1866, purchasing a promotion to lieutenant in 1865.[10] Egerton was subsequently with the 1st Battalion of the Rifle Brigade in Canada (1866–68) and then moved over to the Royal Horse Guards in 1869.[1][11]

By then a captain, in 1878 the Duke of Connaught appointed Egerton his equerry in the room of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Frederick Pickard.[12] In 1881, he was promoted to major and in 1888 retired with the honorary rank of colonel.[13][14] He served as Comptroller and Treasurer to the Duke of Connaught from 1890.[1] A keen shooter, rower, cricketer and cyclist, for his royal service Egerton was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1896, and a Commander (1901) and then Knight Commander (1905) of the Royal Victorian Order.[1] He died on 26 May 1908.[1] In 2011, Bonhams auctioned his set of medals and orders for £62,400, including the Commander 1st Class's badge of the Order of Philip of Hesse,[15] the 2nd class badge of the Russian Order of St Anne, the Commander's badges of the Greek Order of the Redeemer and the Swedish Order of the North Star.[16]

Likenesses

References

  1. [1]
    "Egerton, Col Sir Alfred Mordaunt", Who Was Who (online edition), Oxford University Press, 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  2. [2]
    M. H. Massue, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Clarence Volume, vol. 1, p. 135.
  3. [3]
    "Lieutenant Colonel Arthur George Edward Egerton", Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Captain Louis Edwin William Egerton", Christ Church, Oxford. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  5. [5]
    A. C. Fox-Davies, Armorial Families (7th ed., 1929), p. 607.
  6. [6]
    Henry Keown-Boyd, Soldiers of the Nile: Biographical History of the British Officers of the Egyptian Army, 1882–1925 (Thornbury Publications, 1996), p. 68.
  7. [7]
    D. M. Newitt, "Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton. 1886–1959", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 6 (1960), p. 39.
  8. [8]
    Old Etonian Association, The Eton Register: Part II, 1853–1859 (1905), p. 64
  9. [9]
    The London Gazette, 23 July 1861 (issue 22532), p. 3001.
  10. [10]
    The London Gazette, 19 December 1865 (issue 23050), p. 6737.
  11. [11]
    The Edinburgh Gazette, 10 May 1870 (issue 8057), p. 537.
  12. [12]
    The London Gazette, 5 Jule 1878 (issue 24602), p. 3968.
  13. [13]
    The London Gazette, 26 July 1881 (issue 24999), p. 3677.
  14. [14]
    The London Gazette, 30 December 1887 (issue 25771), p. 7302.
  15. [15]
    "Verdienst-Orden Philipps des Großmütigen", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1907, p. 256 – via hathitrust.org
  16. [16]
    "For Valour: Lot 55: the K.C.V.O. and C.B. group of ten to Colonel Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, Royal Horse Guards, and Comptroller of the Household to H.R.H. Duke of Connaught", Bonhams. 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
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