John Reginald Lopes Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston OBE, MVO, (9 November 1873 – 19 April 1930) was a British peer and soldier. He is the grandfather of Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Nizari Ismailis, an Islamic sect.
Yarde-Buller was born on 9 November 1873. He was the only son of the John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston and Barbara Yelverton. His mother was the only child of Sir Hastings Yelverton and the 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn.[1]
He was educated at Winchester College.[2]
Yarde-Buller was commissioned a second-lieutenant in the Scots Guards on 8 April 1896 and promoted to lieutenant on 13 April 1898. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Yarde-Buller was with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment as it left Southampton for South Africa on the SS Britannic in March 1900.[3] On arrival, the battalion was attached to the 16th Infantry Brigade serving as part of the 8th Division under Sir Leslie Rundle. Yarde-Buller was present at operations in the Orange River Colony May–November 1900, including the action at Biddulphsberg in May 1900 and Wittebergen in July 1900.[4]
After his return from the war, he was appointed aide-de-camp to The Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India in January 1902,[5][6] and promoted to captain on 23 April 1902.[7] He served in India until the following year, then as ADC to The Duke of Connaught from 1904 to 1906. He later became a lieutenant-colonel in the short-lived 3rd Resident Battalion of the Scots Guards.[4]
On 24 April 1907, he married the music hall singer Jessie Denise Orme Smither, only daughter of Alfred John Smither.[8] Before their divorce in 1928,[9] they had six children, most of whom were known for their high-profile marriages and divorces:[4][10]
In 1910, Yarde-Buller inherited his father's title and he and his wife divorced in 1928.[9] In 1926.[14] When he died on 19 April 1930, his eldest son inherited his title. Lady Churston later married, and divorced Theodore William Wessel, the former Danish chargé d'affaires in Chile,[15] before marrying the 7th Duke of Leinster in 1946.[16]
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