Charles Adeane

Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane CB JP (2 November 1863 – 11 February 1943)[1] was a British army officer.

Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane
Born	2 November 1863
Died	11 February 1943 (aged 79)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Honorary Colonel
Unit	4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment Cambridgeshire Volunteer Regiment
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Order of St Sava of Serbia Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown
Relations	Humphrey Lyttelton (grandson)
Other work	Justice of the Peace Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire President of the Royal Agricultural Society

Background

Adeane was the only son of the politician Henry John Adeane and his wife Lady Elizabeth Philippa Yorke, eldest daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke.[2] Adeane was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.[3] He received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Cambridge.[2]

Career

He served in the British Army and was lieutenant of the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.[3] During this time Adeane was decorated with the Order of St Sava of Serbia.[3] After his retirement he became Honorary Colonel of the Cambridgeshire Volunteer Regiment.[3] Adeane was Justice of the Peace and Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire from 1915 until his death in 1943.[4] In 1917, he was appointed President of the Royal Agricultural Society.[4] In the latter year, Adeane was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath[5] and in 1920, he was invested as an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown.[6]

General Election 1900: Huntingdon[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Montagu	2,118	53.5	−0.4
	Liberal	Charles Adeane	1,838	46.5	+0.4
Majority			280	7.0	−0.8
Turnout			3,956	75.8	−6.8
Registered electors			5,222
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.4

Family

The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant, by John Singer Sargent, 1899 (Metropolitan Museum)

On 23 July 1888, he married Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham, daughter of Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, a son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield.[1] They had seven children, two sons and five daughters.[4] His daughter Helena Olivia Adeane (1902–1985) was the first wife of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor and mother of the 8th Earl of Radnor.

His grandson, through his eldest daughter, Pamela, was the jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton.

References

1. "University of Hull - Royal Genealogical Data". Retrieved 8 July 2009.
2. Who is Who 1935. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1935. p. 21.
3. Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. vol. LIX. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd. p. 8.
4. "ThePeerage - Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane". Retrieved 16 December 2006.
5. "No. 29938". The London Gazette. 9 February 1917. p. 1458.
6. "No. 31928". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1920. p. 6174.
7. F. W. S. Craig (1989), British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885–1918. Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 299