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Captain Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore (11 February 1859 – 13 February 1885), was an

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peer and an officer in the 37th Foot, which was renamed as the

Hampshire Regiment The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. The re ...

in 1881.

Life

Yelverton was born at Edinburgh, the son of

William Yelverton Sir William Yelverton KB (1400 – 1470s) was a judge in Norfolk, England and twice a member of parliament for Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Biography Yelverton was born in Norfolk to John Yelverton of Rackheath, Norfolk, and Elizabeth, the daugh ...

(later Lord Avonmore) by his marriage to Emily Marianne Ashworth, the daughter of Major-General Sir Charles Ashworth, who had previously been married to

Edward Forbes Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland ...

, a botanist, by whom she had several children. This marriage was not welcome to Yelverton's family.Chloë Schama, ''Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal'' (2011), p. 57. He was educated at the

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, in

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, and on 30 January 1878 was commissioned into the 37th Foot as a second lieutenant. In February 1879 he was promoted to lieutenant.Frederick Boase, ''Modern English Biography: A-H'' (1892), p. 1864. He became a British Army instructor in

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and died of

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at Kirbekan in 1885, while serving in the

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. A plaque commemorating him can be found in

Winchester Cathedral The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity,Historic England. "Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity (1095509)". ''National Heritage List for England''. Retrieved 8 September 2014. Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winches ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Avonmore, Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount 1859 births 1885 deaths Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst 37th Regiment of Foot officers Royal Hampshire Regiment officers Deaths from typhoid fever Infectious disease deaths in Sudan British Army personnel of the Mahdist War Barry 5 Military personnel from Edinburgh