Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...

Eustace Wyndham Maude, 7th Viscount Hawarden (20 September 1877 – 6 April 1958) was a

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officer, peer and colonial official. Maude was the son of Ludlow Eustace Maude and Clara Louisa Madden, and the great-grandson of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden. He was educated at Bloxham School and the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry a ...

. He was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment on 4 April 1900. He was promoted to Major in 1910 while serving with the

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in Egypt. He succeeded to the title

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on 26 August 1914. It was due to the battlefield death of his cousin, Lt. Robert Cornwallis Maude, at Mons. He saw active service in the

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, during which he was

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. He was subsequently a provincial governor in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He held the office of

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. He married Marion Wright, daughter of Albert Leslie Wright of Butterley Hall and Margaretta Agnes Plumptre, on 17 November 1920. Together they had three children.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawarden, Eustace Maude, 7th Viscount 1877 births 1958 deaths British Army personnel of World War I British colonial governors and administrators in Africa British colonial officials Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst English justices of the peace People educated at Bloxham School Queen's Royal Regiment officers Royal Hampshire Regiment officers Viscounts Hawarden Anglo-Egyptian Sudan people Maude family