Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt (4 April 1817 – 9 January 1905), styled The Honourable Cornwallis Maude until 1856 and known as The Viscount Hawarden from 1856 to 1886, was a British

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politician.

Background

Maude was the only son of

Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden (28 March 1780 – 12 October 1856) was a British Conservative politician. Hawarden was the son of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden, by his second wife Anne Isabella (née Monck), and succeeded his h ...

, and his wife Jane (née Bruce).

Political career

Maude succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1856 but as this was an

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it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the

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. However, in 1862 he was elected an

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, and later served in the Conservative administrations of the

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and

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as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868, 1874 to 1880 and 1885 to 1886. In the latter year, he was created Earl de Montalt, of Dundrum in the County of Tipperary, in the

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. Between 1885 and 1905 he also held the honorary post of

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Family

Lord de Montalt married Clementina, eldest daughter of Admiral

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, in 1845, and had eight children. She was a noted amateur photographer. She died in 1865. One of their sons, the Honourable Cornwallis Maude, a Captain in the

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, was killed in action at the Battle of Majuba Hill in 1881. Of their daughters, probably the best known is Kathleen, who was divorced for

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by her first husband, Gerald Brooke, in 1886, a case which aroused enormous media interest. Lord de Montalt died on 9 January 1905, aged 87, at a hotel at Holyhead,

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. While waiting for a boat to Ireland he became too ill to travel and died. As he had no surviving sons the earldom became extinct on his death. He was succeeded in his other titles by his cousin Robert Henry Maude.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:De Montalt, Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl 1817 births 1905 deaths Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Viscounts Hawarden Lord-Lieutenants of Tipperary British Life Guards officers Irish representative peers Maude family Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria