The Rt Hon. Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham, (2 October 1879 – 5 February 1957), was a

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officer, an Irish representative peer and a Nova Scotia baronet. He was the son of the 10th Baron Farnham and Lady Florence Jane Taylour, a daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Headfort. On his father's death in November 1900, he succeeded as the 11th Baron Farnham (and 14th in the family Baronetcy) and inherited the Farnham Estate,

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. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and received his first commission as second lieutenant in the 10th Hussars on 12 August 1899. The regiment had embarked for

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to fight in the

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in November 1899, and Maxwell joined them in March 1900, travelling on the SS ''British Prince''. Shortly after arrival he was promoted to

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on 1 April 1900. Following the end of the war in 1902, his regiment went to India. Lord Farnham joined almost 375 officers and men of the 10th Hussars who left

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on the SS ''Lake Manitoba'' in September 1902, arriving at

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the following month, and was then stationed at Mhow in Bombay Presidency. During the

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, he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the North Irish Horse. He was appointed to the

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(DSO) in 1918 for his service in World War I. On 18 December 1908, he was elected an Irish Representative peer. He sat in the

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as a member of the Irish Unionist Alliance, and became its closing leader of Southern Unionists after the 1919 split in the party and which ceased operations after the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921. Lord Longford spoke of Lord Farnham while giving a speech in the

in 1995: Lord Farnham married on 8 October 1903 Aileen Selina Coote, daughter of Charles Purdon Coote and Lydia Wingfield-Digby. His son,

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, died of wounds in 1942 at the Battle of El Alamein, and so on his own death in 1957 in a

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nursing home, his titles and his estate, which UK part amounted to £22,810,https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ Calendar of probates and administrations passed to his grandson, Barry. His granddaughter Sheelin married The 3rd Viscount Knollys.

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. (), * * *

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Cavan County Museum - The Farnham Gallery

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