John Gaspard Le Marchant Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly (1 March 1866 – 23 June 1905) was a British
hereditary peer
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and soldier.
Early life
Romilly was born on 1 March 1866. Of
Huguenot ancestry from
Montpellier
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,
he was the only child of
William Romilly, 2nd Baron Romilly and, his first wife, the former Emily Idonea Sophia Le Marchant.
After his mother's death two weeks after his birth in 1866, his father remarried to Helen Denison (the eldest daughter of Edward Hanson Denison of
Rusholme near
Manchester) on 6 November 1872.
In May 1891, his father and two servants died from smoke inhalation from a fire at his London residence.
His paternal grandparents were the former Caroline Charlotte Otter (second daughter of
Rt. Rev. William Otter,
Bishop of Chichester) and the English
Whig politician
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly who served in
Lord John Russell's first administration as
Solicitor-General and later as
Attorney-General. He was the second son of Sir
Samuel Romilly
Sir Samuel Romilly (1 March 1757 – 2 November 1818), was a British lawyer, politician and legal reformer. From a background in the commercial world, he became well-connected, and rose to public office and a prominent position in Parliament. A ...
, MP, and the older brother of
Frederick Romilly
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Romilly (21 March 1810 – 6 April 1887), was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1850 to 1852 and a cricketer who played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Romilly was a younger son of Si ...
, MP. His maternal grandparents were the former Margaret Anne Taylor (third daughter of Rev. Robert Taylor of
Clifton Campville) and
Lt.-Gen. Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, who served as
Governor of
Newfoundland
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,
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
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, and
Governor of Malta. His grandfather was the son of
Maj.-Gen. John Le Marchant and the younger brother of
Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet.
Career
Following his father's death in May 1891,
he succeeded as the 3rd
Baron Romilly.
From 1886 to 1888, he was a Lieutenant in the
King's Royal Rifles
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, followed by a Captain of the
Coldstream Guards in 1898. In 1900, he was made Captain of the
Reserve of Officers and served in
Second Boer War before being made a Major of the Reserve of Officers.
Personal life
On 3 August 1897, Lord Romilly was married to Violet Edith Grey-Egerton (1870–1906) in London. She was the only daughter of Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 11th Baronet of
Oulton Park and the former Hon. Henrietta Elizabeth Sophia Denison (eldest daughter of
Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough
Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, KCH, FRS, FSA (21 October 1805 – 15 January 1860) was a British Whig Party politician and diplomat, known as Lord Albert Conyngham from 1816 to 1849.
Early life and career
Born Albert Denison ...
).
Together, they were the parents of one son:
*
William Gaspard Guy Romilly, 4th Baron Romilly (1899–1983), who married Hon. Diana Joan Sackville-West, the only daughter of
Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville
Major-General Charles John Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville, (10 August 1870 – 8 May 1962) was a British Army general and peer who served throughout the First World War and reached the rank of major general. In 1919, he was British Milita ...
, in 1929.
They divorced in 1944 and he married Dora Sybil Morris, a daughter of Reginald Morris, that same year. After her death in 1960, he married Marion Elizabeth Jessie (
née
A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...
Clover) Cecil, a daughter of Charles M. Clover, in 1966.
Lord Romilly died on 23 June 1905 and was succeeded by his only son
William, upon whose death in 1983 the barony became extinct. His widow died less than a year later on 1 March 1906.
Arms
References
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1866 births
1905 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom