Sir Frederick Ulric Graham, 3rd Baronet
DL JP (2 April 1820 – 8 March 1888) was a British landowner, diplomat and traveller.
Early life
The descendant of an old
Cumbrian
The Cumberland dialect is a local Northern English dialect in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands, not to be confused with the area's extinct Celtic language, Cumbric. Some parts of Cumbria have a mo ...
family, Frederick Ulric was born on 2 April 1820. He was the eldest son of Fanny Callander and
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet (1 June 1792 – 25 October 1861) was a British statesman, who notably served as Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty. He was the eldest son of Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, by Lady Ca ...
, the British statesman who served as
Home Secretary
The secretary of state for the Home Department, otherwise known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. The home secretary leads the Home Office, and is responsible for all national ...
and
First Lord of the Admiralty
The First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy. He was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs, responsible for the di ...
. He was a brother to Constance Helena Graham, Mabel Violet (wife of
William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham
William Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham (28 January 1829 – 13 January 1915), known as The Lord Feversham between 1867 and 1868, was a British Conservative politician.
Biography
Duncombe was the son of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Fevers ...
), Rev. Reginald Malise Graham, Helen Graham and James Stanley Graham.
His paternal grandparents were
Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet and Lady Catherine Stewart (eldest daughter of
John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway
John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway, (13 March 1736 – 13 November 1806), styled Viscount Garlies from 1747 until 1773, was a British peer who became the 7th Earl of Galloway in 1773 and served as a Member of Parliament from 1761 to 1773.
Early ...
). His maternal grandparents were Col.
Sir James Callander of
Ardkinglas
Ardkinglas House is a Category A listed country house on the Ardkinglas Estate in Argyll, Scotland. The estate lies on the eastern shore of Loch Fyne, and the house is located close to the village of Cairndow. Dating back to the 14th century and ...
and Lady Elizabeth Helena McDonnell (a daughter of
Alexander McDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim).
Career
Sir Frederick was a
Cornet
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in the
1st Life Guards and a Capt. in the
Westmorland Yeomanry Cavalry.
He later served as
attaché
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to
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in 1842 while his father was
Home Secretary
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. In 1847, he travelled on an expedition with the
North American fur brigade across the Canadian west.
Upon his father's death on 25 October 1861,
he succeeded as the 3rd
Baronet Graham, of Netherby, Cumberland. He qualified as a magistrate for the county of Cumberland in 1861,
served as
Deputy Lieutenant and
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
for Cumberland, and
High Sheriff of Cumberland
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in 1866.
Personal life
Graham married Lady Jane Hermione Seymour, daughter of
Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset
Edward Adolphus Seymour (later St. Maur), 12th Duke of Somerset, etc., (20 December 180428 November 1885), styled Lord Seymour until 1855, was a British Whig aristocrat and politician, who served in various cabinet positions in the mid-19th ce ...
and his wife
Jane Georgiana Sheridan – the Eglinton 'Queen of Beauty'.
Together, they were the parents of:
* Margaret Frances Graham (1857–1927), who married Alexander Æneas Mackintosh,
27th Chief of
Clan Mackintosh
Clan Mackintosh (''Clann Mhic an Tòisich'') is a Scottish clan from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The chiefs of the clan are the Mackintoshes of Mackintosh. Another branch of the clan, the Mackintoshes of Torcastle, are the chiefs of Cl ...
in 1875.
After his death, she married
James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam
James Walter Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam (11 May 1852 – 11 November 1924), known as Viscount Grimston from 1852 to 1895, was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. He inherited his peerage in ...
in 1878.
*
Violet Hermione Graham, Duchess of Montrose (1854–1940), who married
Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose
Douglas Beresford Malise Ronald Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose KT (7 November 1852 – 10 December 1925), initially styled as the Marquess of Graham, was a Scottish nobleman, racehorse owner, soldier and the 5th Duke of Montrose. He was the son ...
in 1876.
* Sibyl Marcia Graham (1857–1887), who married
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 2nd Baron Houghton
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, (12 January 185820 June 1945), known as The Honourable Robert Milnes from 1863 to 1885, The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British L ...
(later 1st
Marquess of Crewe
Marquess of Crewe was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the Liberal statesman Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe. He had already been created Earl of Crewe, of Crewe, Cheshire, in 1895, and was made Ear ...
) in 1880.
*
Sir Richard James Graham, 4th Baronet (1859–1932), who married his cousin, Olivia Baring, sister of
Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet
Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet KBE, DL, JP (18 April 1871 – 24 November 1957) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight and later Barnstaple.
A member of the influential Baring family, he was the son of Lieutenant-General ...
. After her death in 1887, he married his first cousin, Lady Mabel Cynthia Duncombe, a daughter of
William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham
William Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham (28 January 1829 – 13 January 1915), known as The Lord Feversham between 1867 and 1868, was a British Conservative politician.
Biography
Duncombe was the son of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Fevers ...
.
After her death in 1926 he married his younger brother's widow, Florence Rose Wood.
* Hugh Graham (1860–1921), who married American heiress Jessie Low, a daughter of
Andrew Low of
Savannah, Georgia
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,
and sister in law to
Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low (October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Inspired by the work of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own g ...
, in 1888.
* James Reginald Graham (1864–1910), who married Florence Rose ( Wood), a daughter of J. Carter Wood and widow of Capt. Cyprian Knollys.
* Hilda Georgina Graham (d. 1946), who married
George Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham.
Sir Frederick died at his London residence,
40 Park Lane, on 8 March 1888.
Lady Jane died on 4 April 1909.
Descendants
Through his eldest daughter's first marriage, he was a grandfather of Eva Hermione Mackintosh (1876–1934), who married
Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet
Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet KBE, DL, JP (18 April 1871 – 24 November 1957) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight and later Barnstaple.
A member of the influential Baring family, he was the son of Lieutenant-General ...
(the brother of her uncle's first wife Olivia).
Through his son Hugh, he was posthumously a grandfather to
Alastair Hugh Graham (1904–1982), an Oxford friend of
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires ''Decli ...
who was considered an inspiration for
Sebastian Flyte
''Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'' is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles ...
in ''
Brideshead Revisited
''Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'' is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles ...
''.
References
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1820 births
1888 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
English people of Scottish descent
High Sheriffs of Cumberland