Albert Edward Handcock, 5th Baron Castlemaine (26 March 1863 – 6 July 1937), styled The Honourable from 1869 to 1892, was an

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Background

Born at East Hill, Athlone, he was the second son of Richard Handcock, 4th Baron Castlemaine and his wife Hon. Louisa Matilda Harris, only daughter of

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. In 1892, he succeeded his father as baron. Handcock was educated at

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and went then to

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, where he graduated with a

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in 1895. He was a Knight of Grace of the

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Career

Handcock served in the British Army as lieutenant of the

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. In 1898, he was elected a representative peer to the

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. Previously a Deputy Lieutenant of that county,{{cite book , last = Fox-Davies , first = Arthur Charles , title = Armorial families , url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924029806241 , location = Edinburgh , publisher = Grange Publishing Works , year = 1895 , pages
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he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath in 1899, a post he held until its abolishment with the Irish Free State Constitution Act in 1922.

Family

On 25 September 1895, he married Annie Evelyn Barrington, only daughter of Colonel Joseph Thomas Barrington, at

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, and had by her an only daughter.{{cite book , publisher = Whitaker & Sons , title = Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage , year = 1921 , location = London , pages = 184 Handcock died, aged 74 at London and was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother Robert.

Arms

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References

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Books

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