Carol Arthur Fellowes, 4th Baron Ailwyn, TD (23 November 1896 – 27 September 1988) was a British peer, the son of Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st

Baron Ailwyn Baron Ailwyn, of Honingham in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 July 1921 for the Conservative politician Sir Ailwyn Fellowes. He was the younger son of Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron de Ram ...

. He was known as the Honourable Carol Fellowes from 1921, when his father was raised to the peerage, until he succeeded to the barony on 23 March 1976.

Early life

Carol Fellowes was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges at

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. However, he entered the

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during

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.''Burke's''. In the 1930s he worked as agent to the Earl of Strafford on the

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Estate, living at the Home Farm.Sainsbury, Chapter 5.

Military career

During

Carol Fellowes served as a lieutenant in the Royal Norfolk Regiment in

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(1917–19). In 1937 he was commissioned as a major in the Territorial Army to command the newly raised 334th Anti-Aircraft Company,

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, at

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. The company formed part of 33rd (St Pancras) Anti-Aircraft Battalion based at

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. He commanded of the battery during the Phoney War period, and was then posted to the staff of Anti-Aircraft Command for the rest of the war. He was awarded the

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Public service

He served as a

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for

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and

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Family

Carol Fellowes married, on 16 November 1936, Mrs Caroline Alice Cudemore (d.1985), daughter of Maynard Cowan of

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. Lord Ailwyn died, without issue, on 27 September 1988, at which point the barony became extinct.

Notes

References

* ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. * Col J.D. Sainsbury, ''The Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery, Part 2: The Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1938–1945 and the Searchlight Battery 1937–1945; Part 3: The Post-war Units 1947–2002'', Welwyn: Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Trust/Hart Books, 2003, . 4 Ailwyn, Carol Fellowes, 3rd Baron of Ailwyn, Carol Fellowes, 3rd Baron of Royal Navy officers of World War I {{UK-baron-stub