Lt.-Col. Sir Terence Edmond Patrick Falkiner, 8th Baronet DL

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(17 March 1903 – 19 February 1987) was an English soldier.

Early life

Lt.-Col. Sir Terence Edmond Patrick Falkiner, 8th Bt. was born on 17 March 1903. He was the son of

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and Kathleen Mary Orde-Powlett. Among his siblings were Naomi Elaine Mary Falkiner, a nun, Capt. Lucien Leslie Falkiner (who married Hon. Lucy Verney-Cave, a daughter of the 6th

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) who was killed in action during

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, and Maj. Gervase Leslie Falkiner (who married Rosemary Florence Emily Smith), who fought and was wounded in the War. Before his parents' marriage, his father was married to Elaine Maynard Farmer, daughter of William Mortimer Maynard Farmer, who died in 1900. His paternal grandparents were

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and the former Blanche Call (a daughter of Sir William Call, 3rd Baronet). His maternal grandparents were Hon. Henry Robert Orde-Powlett (a son of

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) and the former Henrietta Cathcart de Trafford (a granddaughter of Sir Thomas de Trafford, 1st Baronet and

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). He was educated at Oratory School, Birmingham.

Career

He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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. He fought in the

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during

, where he was wounded. He was Assistant Military Secretary of the Eastern Command at

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from 1948 to 1951 before becoming the Assistant Military Secretary of the Southern Command at

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from 1951 to 1955. He retired in 1956. He succeeded as the 8th Baronet Falkiner, of Anne Mount, in the County of Cork, following the death of his father on 19 January 1917. His residence was

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. He served as Deputy Lieutenant of

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in 1965. He was appointed He was appointed a Knight of

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.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, pages 916, 1277, 1381.

Personal life

On 29 September 1925, he married Mildred Katharine Cotterell at

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, London. Mildred was the youngest daughter of

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and Lady Evelyn Amy Gordon-Lennox (the eldest daughter of

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox, 2nd Duke of Gordon, (27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928), 7th Duke of Aubigny (French peerage in the French nobility), styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March between 18 ...

and the former Amy Mary Ricardo). Together, they were the parents of: * Elizabeth Anne Thérèse Falkiner (b. 1929), an author who married Sir Michael Hogg, 8th Baronet, son of Sir Arthur Hogg, 7th Baronet, in 1956. * Mary Clare Falkiner (b. 1934), who married Noel John Taylor, son of Charles Taylor, in 1956. They divorced in 1980 and she married Geoffrey Smith, son of William Smith, in 1991. * Veronica Cicely Falkiner (b. 1935), who married William David Brown, son of William Moir Brown, in 1956. *

Sir Edmond Charles Falkiner, 9th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(1938–1997), who married Janet Iris Darby, daughter of Arthur Edward Bruce Darby, in 1960. They divorced in 1996 and he married Diana Jean Childs, daughter of Percy Arthur Childs, in 1997. * Henry Leslie Basil Falkiner (1940–2003), who married Dorothea Angela Wolfe-Taylor, daughter of Peter Wolfe-Taylor, in 1967. He died on 19 February 1987 at age 83. After his death, his widow wished to be known as Mildred, Lady Falkiner.

References

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People educated at The Oratory School Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland