Sir Mark Beresford Russell Grant-Sturgis KCB (born Sturgis; 10 July 1884 – 29 April 1949) was a British civil servant who served as Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland. Grant-Sturgis was the son of

Julian Sturgis Julian Russell Sturgis (21 October 1848 – 13 April 1904) was a British-American novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, Sturgis distinguished himself in Eton's sporting activities and rowed f ...

and Mary Maude Beresford, daughter of Colonel Marcus Wylly de la Poer Beresford. Mary Beresford was descendant from William Wylly, the Chief Justice of

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in the early 19th Century, and Matilda Mathews, the daughter of American Loyalist

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, the Loyalist Mayor of

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during the

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and descendant of the Dutch American

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. He was educated at

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before becoming assistant private secretary to then

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. From 1920 to 1922, he was assistant to the joint Under-Secretaries for Ireland,

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and

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. He subsequently became Presiding Special Commissioner of Income Tax. The

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saw him appointed

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. On 9 July 1914, he married Lady Ellen Rachel Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, daughter of Francis Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Wharncliffe. They had two sons, Patrick John Russell (born 1915) and Robin Julian (born 1920), and a daughter, Pamela Rachael (born 1916). She married first, Allan Alexander Cameron, and secondly Hon. Simon Baring, son of

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. In 1935, he assumed the additional name of Grant by royal licence. He died in London in 1949. His funeral was held at

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and attended by

Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia ( sr-cyr, Томислав Карађорђевић, Tomislav Karađorđević; 19 January 1928 – 12 July 2000) was a member of the House of Karađorđević, the second son of King Alexander I and Queen Maria of Yug ...

, representing his mother, Queen Maria, as well as several prominent government officials and aristocrats, including the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe; Violet, Countess of Ypres; Lord Adam Gordon, Sir Neville Anderson, Sir Eric St John Bamford, and Sir Roderick Meiklejohn In 1999 his diaries detailing his time as a senior Civil Servant in Ireland were published by the Irish Academic Press in Dublin. Namely: 'The Last Days of Dublin Castle: The Diaries of Mark Sturgis'

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