Colonel John St Vincent Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez (28 May 1806 – 8 January 1891) was a British soldier and artist.

Early life

John St. Vincent Saumarez was born on 28 May 1806. He was the third son of Admiral

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and Martha Le Marchant (d. 1849). Through his mother, the estate now known as Saumarez Park came into the family. His elder brothers were the Rev. James Saumarez (who married Mary Lechmere, daughter of Vice-Admiral William Lechmere), and Thomas Le Marchant Saumarez (who married Catherine Spencer Alicia Beresford Vassall, daughter of Lt.-Col. Spencer Thomas Vassall). His paternal grandparents were Matthew de Sausmarez and, his second wife, Carteret Le Marchant (a daughter of James Le Marchant). Among his paternal family were uncles,

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Richard Saumarez Richard Saumarez Royal Society, FRS FRSE Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS (13 November 1764 – 28 January 1835) was a British surgeon and medical author. Saumarez was a prolific writer, wi ...

. His aunt married Henry Brock, making him a first cousin of Maj.-Gen. Sir

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and Daniel de Lisle Brock. His maternal grandparents, also from Guernsey, Thomas Le Marchant and Mary ( Dobrée) Le Marchant (sister to Mary Dobrée, who married Sir

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, both daughters of merchant Peter Dobrée).

Career

Of the three sons of the 1st Baron de Saumarez, he was the only to have issue. Upon the death of his elder brother, clergyman

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on 9 April 1863, he succeeded as the 3rd

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, in the Island of Guernsey in the

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, as well as the 3rd Baronet Saumarez, in the Island of Guernsey in the

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. He served as a colonel in the

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, Light Brigade. In 1869, after Lord de Saumarez put his

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property up for sale, his eldest son,

exercised his ''droit de retraite'' (right of redemption) to buy Saumarez Park and the Le Guet estate at Castel there.How the de Saumarez family shaped the island
dated 10 March 2007, at guernseypress.com, accessed 8 November 2015.

Personal life

On 2 June 1838 at the British Embassy in Paris, he married Caroline Esther Rhodes (1818–1846), daughter of William Rhodes of Kirskill Hall,

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Hall, Yorkshire.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

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, 2000), volume II, page 228. While in London, they lived at 41, Prince's Gate,

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/ref> Before her death on 15 July 1846, they were the parents of two sons and two daughters: * Hon. Caroline Amelia Saumarez (1839–1922), who married, as his second wife,

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, son of

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, in 1861. After his death in 1869, she became a nun at

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, London, of which she was the principal benefactor. She took the religious name of Mother Mary Caroline of the Benedictine Community of the Compassion of Jesus. * Hon. Augusta Caroline Saumarez (1841–1929), who married Florance Irby, 5th Baron Boston, son of

and, his first wife Fanny Elizabeth Hopkins-Northey, in 1859. After his death in 1877, she married Sir Henry Percy Anderson, Assistant Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, in 1883.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, 2003, vol. 1, p. 1113. * James St. Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez (1843–1937), a career diplomat who married heiress Jane Anne Vere-Broke, daughter of Capt. Charles Acton Vere-Broke and Anna Maria Hamilton (a daughter of John Hamilton of Sundrum), in 1882. * Hon. John St. Vincent Saumarez (1845–1877), a Captain in the 14th Hussars who died unmarried. On 13 April 1850, he married Margaret Antoinette Northey (d. 1904), fourth daughter of William Richard Hopkyns Northey of

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