"Racing & Politics" Greville-Nugent as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, December 1881
Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville (11 February 1841 – 2 December 1909), styled Hon. Algernon Greville-Nugent from 1866 to 1883, was a British politician.[1]
He and his father adopted the surname of Greville-Nugent in 1866.[4] On 15 December 1869, his father was created Baron Greville, of Clonyn in the County of Westmeath. Greville-Nugent succeeded to his father's barony in 1883 and resumed the use of the surname of Greville alone.[2]
Personal life
On 16 December 1863, Greville married the writer Lady Beatrice Violet Graham.[5] Her parents were the politician James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose and the racehorse owner, former Hon. Caroline Agnes Horsley-Beresford (third daughter of John Horsley-Beresford, 2nd Baron Decies).[2] Together, they were the parents of four children:[2] His wife had a fifth child with William Henry John North. North was the 11th baron North, he had his own land and he was the Master of Foxhounds at Wroxton Abbey. He and Violet separated and his wife continued her relationship with North for the rest of her life. Greville refused to divorce her.[5] Their four children were:
Hon. Camilla Dagmar Violet Greville (1866–1938), who married Hon. Alistair George Hay, son of the Earl of Kinnoull, on 21 January 1890. They divorced in 1908.[6]
Hon. Lilian Veronique Greville (1869–1956), who married Cmdr. Herbert Victor Creer in 1907.[8]
His eldest son, Ronald, died without issue in 1908, so he was succeeded by his second son Charles upon his own death in 1909.[9][10]
^ abMair, Robert H. (1884). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons bearing Hereditary or Courtesy Titles, of Companions of the Orders of Knighthood and of the Indian Empire, and of all Collateral Branches of Peers and Baronets; Illustrated with 1400 Armorial Bearings. London: Dean and Son. p. 314.
