Nigel Kingscote
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Nigel Kingscote | |
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| Commissioner of Woods and Forests | |
| In office 1885–1895 | |
| Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West | |
| In office 1852-1885 Serving with Robert Blagden Hale (1852–1857) Sir John Rolt (1857–1867) Edward Arthur Somerset (1867–1868) Samuel Marling (1867–1874) Hon. Randal Plunkett (1874–1880) Lord Moreton (1880–1885) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 February 1830 |
| Died | 22 September 1908 (aged 78) |
| Party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) |
Caroline Wyndham
(m. 1851; died 1852) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Thomas Kingscote (brother) Henry Wilson (grandson) Henry Somerset (grandfather) Lord Raglan (great-uncle) |
| Military career | |
| Branch | Army |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Unit | Scots Fusilier Guards |
| Commands | Royal North Gloucestershire Militia |
| Conflicts | Crimean War |
Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote GCVO KCB JP[1] (28 February 1830 – 22 September 1908) was a British soldier, Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist. He was generally known as Sir Nigel Kingscote.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Kingscote was the son of Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote, of Kingscote Park, Gloucestershire, by his first wife, Lady Isabella Anne Frances Somerset, a daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. His mother died when he was less than one year old, shortly after the birth of her second child, a daughter. His brother, Thomas Kingscote, also joined the Royal Household.[citation needed]
Military career
[edit | edit source]Kingscote was commissioned in to the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1846.[2] He was Aide-de-Camp to his great-uncle, Lord Raglan, during the Crimean War, and later achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Scots Fusiliers.[3] He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia (later 4th (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment) on 28 January 1862 and retained the position until the unit's disbandment in 1908.[4][5][6][7]
Political career
[edit | edit source]Kingscote was Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West between 1852 and 1885.[8] He was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1856.[9] The latter year he was appointed a Commissioner of Woods and Forests,[10] a post he held until 1895. He was also a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and a Trustee of the manor of Horsley.[11]
Court positions
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Kingscote was a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria between 1859 and 1866, when he resigned,[12] and as an Extra Equerry to the Prince of Wales in 1867. He served as Superintendent of the Prince of Wales's stables until 1885,[13] was appointed to the Council of the Prince of Wales in 1886,[14] and as Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall in 1888,[15] Extra Equerry to Edward VII between 1901 and 1902 and Paymaster-General of the Royal Household between 1901[16] and 1908.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1855, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1889. After the accession of King Edward VII, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1902 Birthday Honours,[17] and was invested with the insignia by the King at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.[18]
Agriculture
[edit | edit source]Kingscote was also involved in agricultural affairs and served as President of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1878.[citation needed]
Family
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Kingscote was twice married.[citation needed]
He married firstly the Hon Caroline Sophia Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, in 1851. She died in childbirth on 19 March 1852 at Drove, Westhampnett in West Sussex: her newborn son died on the same day.[citation needed]
Kingscote married secondly Lady Emily Marie Curzon, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, in 1856. Lady Emily was a fellow courtier, serving as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra. They had two sons and two daughters:[19][20]
- Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge Kingscote (14 February 1857 - 24 November 1921)
- Harriet Maude Isabella Kingscote (March 1860 - 14 March 1906), married Arthur Wilson and was the mother of Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson.
- Winifred Ida Kingscote (24 April 1862 - 25 October 1938), married George Cholmondeley, 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley on 16 July 1879 and was the mother of George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley.
- Albert Edward Leicester Fitzhardinge Kingscote (13 May 1865 - ?)
Death
[edit | edit source]Kingscote died in September 1908, aged 78. Lady Kingscote died in December 1910.[citation needed]
References
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- ^ See his Crimean Journal – Gloucestershire Archives, record D471, catalogue NRA 4496 Kingscote. Also correspondence and diaries of his brother whilst in the Crimean held at National Army Museum, record 7311/170, catalogue NRA 20803 Kingscote. Also Correspondence with Lord Raglan held at Gwent Record Office NRA 28994.
- ^ Army List, various dates.
- ^ Maj Wilfred Joseph Cripps (revised by Capt Hon M.H. Hicks-Beach & Maj B.N. Spraggett), The Royal North Gloucester Militia, 2nd Edn, Cirencester: Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard Printing Works, 1914, Appendix A.
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- ^ Pine, L. G.. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 17th edition. London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952
External links
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- Caricature of Sir Robert Kingscote by Leslie Ward at the National Portrait Gallery
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Kingscote
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