Frederick William Brook Thellusson, 5th Baron Rendlesham JP DL (9 February 1840 – 9 November 1911), was a British

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politician.

Early life

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Frederick was born in Florence, Italy on 9 February 1840. He was the only son of Frederick Thellusson, 4th Baron Rendlesham, and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte ( Prescott) Duff, a daughter of Sir George Prescott, 2nd Baronet, and former wife of General Sir James Duff. His mother died when he was less than one year old. His great-grandfather, the British merchant and banker

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, was perhaps best known for his "extraordinary will" which "gave rise to an act of Parliament known as the Thellusson act." Thellusson was educated in England at Eton and

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. In 1852, aged twelve, he succeeded in the barony on the death of his father. However, as this was an

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it did not entitle him to a seat in the

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Career

Lord Rendlesham was appointed Sheriff of Suffolk in 1870 and elected to the

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as member of parliament (MP) for Suffolk East at a by-election in March 1874, a seat he held until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election. Reportedly a fine footballer at Eton and

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, he maintained a keen interest in other sports in later life, being on the National Hunt Committee as well as a member of the

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and the

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. On 12 February 1887 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Suffolk Artillery Militia, and retained the position until the unit was disbanded in 1909. Failing eyesight in 1911 caused him to resign from long-held positions as chairman of the East Suffolk County Council and the Suffolk Quarter Sessions. He subsequently contracted blood-poisoning, leading to the amputation of his left hand in July 1911.

Personal life

In 1861, Lord Rendlesham was married to Lady Egidia Montgomerie (–1880) at

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followed by a honeymoon at

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, the seat of John Tollemache. She was a daughter of

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and the former Theresa Howe (née Newcomen) Cockerell (widow of Capt. Richard Howe Cockerell who was an illegitimate daughter of Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen). They had three sons and five daughters, including: * Hon. Miriam Isabel Thellusson (d. 1950),Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3316. who married Godfrey Herbert Joseph Williams, eldest son of Morgan Stuart Williams, in 1901. They divorced in 1923. * Hon. Cecilia Blanche Thellusson (d. 1948), who died unmarried. * Frederick Archibald Charles Thellusson, 6th Baron Rendlesham (1868–1938), who married Lilian Manley, fourth daughter of Joshua Manley. After her death in 1931, he married Dolores Olga Williams (widow of Henry Harcourt Williams), a daughter of Sir William Salusbury-Trelawny, 10th Baronet), later the same year. * Hon. Ruby Alexandrina Elizabeth Thellusson (1870–1955), who married Lt.-Col. Bernard James Petre, eldest son of James Duff MP, in 1907. * Hon. Adeline Egidia Thellusson (–1948), who married Maj. Lewis Kerrison Jarvis, son of Sir Lewis Jarvis, of Middleton Towers, in 1891. * Hon. Mariota Thellusson (1873–1924), who married Arthur Egerton, 5th Earl of Wilton, son of Seymour Egerton, 4th Earl of Wilton, in 1895. * Percy Edward Thellusson, 7th Baron Rendlesham (1874–1943), who married Gladys Dunlop Yorke, the former wife of Hon. Alfred Yorke and only child of Andrew Vans Dunlop Best, in 1922. * Hon. Hugh Edmund Thellusson (1876–1926), who married Gwynnydd Colleton, younger daughter of Brig.-Gen. Sir Robert Colleton, 9th Baronet, in 1914. Lady Rendlesham died in January 1880. Lord Rendlesham remained a widower until his death at Rendlesham Hall, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, in November 1911, aged 71. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son

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Notes

References

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

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