Colonel Sir Edward Ion Beresford Grogan, 2nd Baronet, (29 November 1873 – 11 July 1927) was a

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officer.

Military career

The son of the politician

Sir Edward Grogan, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Grogan, 1st Baronet (5 November 1802 – 26 January 1891) was an Irish Conservative Party politician. He was the eldest son of John Grogan, barrister, of Raheny, Dublin, and Sarah Medlicott. The Grogan family of Dublin were cousins of t ...

, and his wife Catherine (née MacMahon), daughter of Sir Beresford Burston MacMahon, 2nd Baronet, he was educated at

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and the

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, and was commissioned into the

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in 1893. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet in 1891. He served in the

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from 1899 to 1900 with the 1st Battalion, including in the

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, and was

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. From 1904 to 1906 he served as a

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at the

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, and then served with the Imperial Ottoman Gendarmerie in

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from 1906 to 1908. In March 1911, he served as a

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, and was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel while so employed. He held the position until 1914. He commanded the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade during the

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and served at

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, being

three times and awarded the

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(DSO) in 1917. In 1918, he was appointed General Staff Officer Grade 1 (GSO1) with the British Military Mission in

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during the

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. He was promoted Brevet

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in 1919 and appointed

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(CMG) in the Siberian War Honours of January 1920. He retired in 1924.

Family

Grogan married, in 1907, Ellinor Smith, daughter of author and schoolmaster

Reginald Bosworth Smith Reginald Bosworth Smith (1839–1908) was an English academic, schoolmaster, man of letters and author. Background and early life Born on 28 June 1839 at West Stafford rectory, Dorset, he was the second son in the large family of Reginald Southw ...

and widow of Sir Harry Langhorne Thompson (d. 1902).GROGAN, Col Sir Edward Ion Beresford', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015 In July 1927 he shot himself with his

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at his seat, Shropham Hall, near

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, after being ill for a long time. He and his wife had no children and the baronetcy became extinct.

Arms

Footnotes

References

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'', 13 July 1927 *''

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