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Biography of Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote 1830-1908

Paternal Family Tree: Kingscote

Maternal Family Tree: Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway 1709-1786

On 8th April 1828 [his father] Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote of Kingscote Park in Gloucestershire (age 29) and [his mother] Isabella Somerset Anne Frances (age 19) were married at Badminton, Gloucestershire. She died three years later in childbirth. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Henry Charles Somerset 6th Duke Beaufort (age 61) and [his grandmother] Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Beaufort (age 57).

On 28th February 1830 Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote was born to Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote of Kingscote Park in Gloucestershire (age 31) and Isabella Somerset Anne Frances (age 21).

On 4th February 1831 [his mother] Isabella Somerset Anne Frances (age 22) died in childbirth.

On 5th June 1833 [his father] Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote of Kingscote Park in Gloucestershire (age 34) and [his step-mother] Harriot Mary Anne Bloomfield (age 26) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 13th March 1851 Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 21) and Caroline Sophia Wyndham (age 21) were married at Petworth. They were fifth cousins.

On 19th March 1852 [his wife] Caroline Sophia Wyndham (age 22) died in childbirth at Drove Westhampnett. She and the child, who died on the same day, were buried at Bartons Lane Cemetery Petworth.

In 1856 Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 25) and Emily Mary Curzon Howe (age 20) were married. They had two sons and two daughters. She the daughter of Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 59) and Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe. They were fourth cousins.

The London Gazette 21873. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Gloucester, and of the City and County of the City of Gloucester, and of the City and County of the City of Bristol.

Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 26), Esq, to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 15th April, 1856.

On 8th February 1858 [his brother-in-law] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 3rd Earl Howe (age 35) and Isabella Maria Katherine Anson Countess Howe (age 26) were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 61) and Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe. They were fifth cousin once removed.

On 19th December 1861 [his father] Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote of Kingscote Park in Gloucestershire (age 62) died.

The London Gazette 23152. St. James's Palace, August 1, 1866. The Queen (age 47) has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Charles Hugh Lindsay (age 49), M.P.,.to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 36), C.B., M.P., resigned.

In 1869 James Hamilton 2nd Duke of Abercorn (age 30) and [his sister-in-law] Mary Anna Curzon Howe Duchess Abercorn (age 21) were married. She by marriage Duchess Abercorn. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 72) and Anne Gore Countess Howe. He the son of James Hamilton 1st Duke of Abercorn (age 57) and Louisa Jane Russell Duchess Abercorn (age 56).

On 12th May 1870 [his father-in-law] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 73) died. His son [his brother-in-law] George (age 49) succeeded 2nd Earl Howe, 3rd Viscount Curzon of Penn in Buckinghamshire, 4th Baron Howe.

In 1876 [his brother-in-law] George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon Howe 2nd Earl Howe (age 55) died. His brother [his brother-in-law] Richard (age 53) succeeded 3rd Earl Howe, 4th Viscount Curzon of Penn in Buckinghamshire, 5th Baron Howe. Isabella Maria Katherine Anson Countess Howe (age 44) by marriage Countess Howe.

On 16th July 1879 [his son-in-law] George Cholmondeley 4th Marquess Cholmondeley (age 21) and [his daughter] Winifred Kingscote Marchioness Cholmondeley were married. They were fifth cousin once removed.

The London Gazette 25468. Marlborough House, May 1, 1885.

THE Prince of Wales (age 43) has been pleased to appoint Major the Lord Henry Arthur George Somerset (age 33), Royal Horse Guards, to be Superintendent of His Royal Highness's Stables, vice Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 55), C.B., appointed Commissioner of Woods and Forests.

The Prince of Wales has also been pleased to appoint Lord Henry Arthur George Somerset to be an Extra Equerry-in-waiting to His Royal Highness.

The London Gazette 25868. The Prince of Wales's Council Chamber, BucKingham Gate, October 22, 1888.

HIS Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to appoint Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 58), C.B., Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall, vice the Right Honourable Sir John Rose, Bart., G.C.M.G., deceased.

On 25th September 1900 [his brother-in-law] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 3rd Earl Howe (age 78) died. His son Richard (age 39) succeeded 4th Earl Howe, 5th Viscount Curzon of Penn in Buckinghamshire, 6th Baron Howe. Georgiana Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill Countess Howe (age 40) by marriage Countess Howe.

The London Gazette 27294. Board of Green Cloth, BucKingham Palace, March 13, 1901.

The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 71), K.C.B., Extra Equerry to His Majesty, to be Paymaster of His Majesty's Household, in the room of George Thomas Hertslet, Esq., resigned

The London Gazette 27493. Chancery of the Royal Victorian Order, St. James's Palace, November 9,1902.

The King has been graciously pleased to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order:-

To be Knights Grand Cross:

Victor Albert Francis Charles (age 38), Viscount Churchill, K.C.V.O. (Lord in Waiting).

General Frederick Augustus, Baron Chelmsford, G.C.B. (Gold Stick in Waiting).

Horace Brand, Baron Farquhar, K.C.V.O. (Master of the Household).

Colonel Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, Bart, G.C.B., K.C.S.L (Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police).

Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitz-Hardinge Kingscote (age 72), K.C.B. (Extra Equerry to His Majesty).

Admiral Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson, K.C.B. (Extra Equerry to His Majesty).

Major-General Sir Henry Trotter, K.C.V.O. (Commanding Home District).

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

In 1906 [his sister-in-law] Georgiana Charlotte Curzon Howe Duchess Beaufort (age 81) died.

The Scarlet Tree by Osbert Sitwell Chapter 2. In general, each Christmas [at Blankney Hall] the representatives of the older generation were the same, invariably numbering in their company my grandmother [Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough (age 69)], her brother-in-law [Arthur Walsh 2nd Baron Ormathwaite (age 80)] and sister [Katherine Somerset Baroness Ormathwaite (age 73)]. Lord and Lady Ormathwaite, and Sir Nigel (age 77) and Lady [his wife] Emily Kingscote (age 72). Lord Ormathwaite was even then over eighty — he lived to be ninety-three. Both he and his wife were of a deeply religious nature (it was very noticeable how much more devout were the old than their sons and daughters), and one of the favourite amusements of the children, I remember, was to hide in the broad passage outside the bedroom of this old couple, and listen to the vehement recitation of their lengthy and extremely personal prayers. Another frequent Christmas visitor, until her death in 1903, was [his sister-in-law] Adza Lady Westmorland, who belonged to the same epoch, being the mother of my aunt, and a sister to the [his sister-in-law] 8th Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Emily Kingscote. She was a godchild of Queen Adelaide, as was her nephew the Duke of Beaufort (age 60)1. Adza Lady Westmorland, indeed, came of a family much devoted to Queen Adelaide, since she was the daughter of that Lord Howe — the 1st Earl Howe — whose singular conduct at the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, when King William IV was living there, had roused the malicious interest of Charles Greville. Lord Howe, a handsome young man "with a delightful wife", hovered dotingly round Queen Adelaide whenever she was in the room, remained gazing at her with eyes full of love and admiration, and behaved altogether, the diarist relates, as though "a boy in love with this frightful spotted majesty" .... Adza Lady Westmorland, as I remember her, was a very old lady in a Bath-chair, who wore a black dress and a large, shady black hat. But she still retained her wonderfully exquisite manners and her great charm, for both of which she had been celebrated. In her time, she had been responsible for several small social innovations for women, such as wearing tweeds and smoking cigarettes.

As for the young, they were for the most part the same as those we saw a few years before at Scarborough: my cousins, Raincliffe — Frank —, and Hugo and Irene Denison, Veronica and Christopher Codrington, Enid Fane (age 13) and her brother, Burghersh (age 14) — who was my particular friend and companion at that time, in the same way that Victor was my enemy elect —, Marigold Forbes, and other young relatives. Entertainments were provided for them — and, as we shall see in a moment, by them — with regularity. Presents were I do not know how much the old or the young plentiful .... enjoyed the parties — scarcely as much as the members of the ruling generation, I should say; to the old, certainly, these Christmas festivities brought a feeling of sadness, of deposition.... Among the children, I am sure that the child who felt least happy, an alien among her nearest grown-up relations, was my sister. Acutely sensitive, and with her imagination perhaps almost unduly developed by the neglect and sadness of her childhood since she was five, she could find no comfort under these tents. She loved music, it was true — indeed, where music is, there, always, is her home but the music of this house meant little to her, and the formal conversation between children and grown-ups, even if they were trying to be kind, frightened and bored her; while she did not care for the machinery of the life here; the continual killings seemed to her to be cruel, even insane. She ought to have asked to go out with the guns, even if she herself did not shoot; she might at least have attended a meet. And, if anything, my father's inclination to nag at her on the one hand, my mother's, to fall into ungovernable, singularly terrifying rages with her, on the other, because of her non-conformity, seemed stronger when there were people, as here, to feed the fires of their discontent, and other children to set a standard by which to measure her attainments. "Dearest, you ought to make her like killing rabbits," one could hear the fun brigade urging on my mother. But while my father was angry with his daughter for failing to comply with another standard — his for not having a du-Maurier profile, a liking for "lawn-tennis" or being able to sing or play the zither after dinner (it did not affect him that his wife's relations would have been very angry if she had attempted to play the zither at them), he was also disappointed on another score. She seemed far less interested than I was — or even Sacheverell who was only six or seven — in his stories about the Black Death (a subject he had been "reading up" in the British Museum), and she seemed to have no natural feeling for John The Victorians, Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy .... I think, appreciated Edith more than did the Edwardians. But Irene was the particular focus for grown-up attention and affection, not bccausc she was the only daughter of the house, but because the delicate loveliness of her appearance, with her fine skin and huge, dark-blue eyes, and a certain kind serenity, unusual in a child of her age, made everyone want to spoil her. But it was in vain she remained absolutely unspoilt, gentle, amiable, full of kindly fccling towards the whole world.

Note 1. Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Beaufort (b. 1847), was named Adelbert after Queen Adelaide, and Wellington after the Iron Duke, his godfather and his father's great-uncle. He died in 1920. His late Royal Highness the Duke Connaught (1850—1942) was one of the two last surviving godsons of the Duke of Wellington, the other and ultimate being the 4th Marquess of Ormonde (age 58) ( 1849-1943).

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On 22nd September 1908 Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (age 78) died.

In 1910 [his former wife] Emily Mary Curzon Howe (age 74) died.

[his daughter] Winifred Kingscote Marchioness Cholmondeley was born to Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote and Emily Mary Curzon Howe.

[his daughter] Harriet Kingscote was born to Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote and Emily Mary Curzon Howe.

Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote 1830-1908 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote 1830-1908

Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote 1830-1908

GrandFather: Thomas Kingscote

Father: Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote of Kingscote Park in Gloucestershire 18 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Dashwood

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Dashwood of Peyton Hall

Great x 2 Grandfather: George Dashwood of Hackney 15 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Algernon Peyton 1st Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Algerina Peyton 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Dashwood aka Peyton 1st Baronet 16 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Algernon Peyton 1st Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Sewster Peyton 2nd Baronet 14 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Peyton 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Dashwood of Hackney 15 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dashwood Lady Peyton 16 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

GrandMother: Harriett Peyton 17 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Rous 2nd Baronet

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Rous 4th Baronet

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Rous 5th Baronet

Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Rous Lady Peyton

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bedingfield

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Bedingfield

Great x 2 Grandmother: Judith Bedingfield

Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Somerset Marquess Worcester 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Duke Beaufort 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Rebecca Child Marchioness Worcester

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Noel Somerset 4th Duke Beaufort 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Wriothesley Baptist Noel 2nd Earl Gainsborough 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Rachel Noel Duchess Beaufort 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Greville Duchess Buckingham and Normandby 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 5th Duke Beaufort 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Berkeley 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Symes Berkeley 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berekeley Duchess Beaufort 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Norborne

GrandFather: Henry Charles Somerset 6th Duke Beaufort 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Boscawen

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Boscawen 1st Viscount Falmouth 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jael Godolphin 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Boscawen 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Godfrey

Great x 3 Grandmother: Charlotte Godfrey Viscountess Falmouth 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Arabella Churchill 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Boscawen Duchess Beaufort 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Evelyn of Nutfield

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Evelyn Evelyn

Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Evelyn Evelyn

Mother: Isabella Somerset Anne Frances 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Leveson-Gower 4th Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Granville Baroness Gower

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Manners 1st Duke Rutland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Manners Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Noel Duchess Rutland 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Evelyn

Great x 2 Grandmother: Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Feilding 2nd Earl Desmond 3rd Earl Denbigh 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Carey Countess Desmond and Denbigh 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandMother: Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Beaufort 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 3rd Earl Galloway

Great x 3 Grandfather: James Stewart 5th Earl Galloway 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Douglas Countess Galloway 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Montgomerie 9th Earl Eglinton 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Montgomerie Countess Galloway 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Cochrane

Great x 1 Grandmother: Susanna Stewart Marchioness Stafford 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cochrane 2nd Earl Dundonald 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Cochrane 4th Earl Dundonald 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England