Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth

The Viscount Falmouth
Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth
Born24 July 1847 (1847-07-24)
Died1 October 1918 (1918-11) (aged 71)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
RankMajor-General
Battles / warsAnglo-Egyptian War
Nile Expedition
AwardsKnight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Companion of the Order of the Bath

Major General Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, KCVO, CB (24 July 1847 – 1 October 1918) was a British peer and British Army officer.

Military career

Boscawen was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards: he played cricket for the Household Brigade and then for the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.[1] He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882 and, having been promoted to colonel in 1886, he also took part in the Nile Expedition between 1884 and 1885.[2] He was promoted to major-general in 1898 and became Assistant Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ireland in 1900.[2] He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Kent on 8 January 1900,[3] and of Cornwall on 19 March.[4] He retired from the army on 9 August 1902.[5]

Boscawen succeeded to the title of 7th Viscount Falmouth on 6 November 1889.[2]

Family

He married the Hon. Kathleen Douglas-Pennant, eldest daughter of Lord Penrhyn, on 19 October 1886 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge[2][6] Their daughter, Kathleen Pamela Mary Corona (1902–1995), the actress known by the stage name Pamela Carme, married theatrical manager Henry Sherek.[7]

According to Lady Randolph Churchill's sisters, he might have had a liaison with her, and might have been the biological father of John Strange Spencer-Churchill, the younger brother of Winston Churchill.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 28 April 2014.(subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d Burke's Peerage
  3. ^ "No. 27154". The London Gazette. 16 January 1900. p. 296.
  4. ^ "No. 27176". The London Gazette. 23 March 1900. p. 1969.
  5. ^ "No. 27462". The London Gazette. 8 August 1902. p. 5101.
  6. ^ "Col Boscawen's Wedding". The Cornishman. No. 433. 28 October 1886. p. 6.
  7. ^ Darlington, W. A. (2004). "Henry Sherek". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36063. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ Sebba, Anne. American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Norton, 2008

Sources

  • Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
Honorary titles
Preceded by Colonel of the Coldstream Guards
1915–1918 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Viscount Falmouth
1889–1918 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Baron le Despencer
1891–1918