Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge

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JP, ADC
Photo taken by Mrs. Albert Broom
Born
Prince Adolphus of Teck

(1869-08-13)13 August 1869
Kensington Palace, London, England
Died24 October 1927(1927-10-24) (aged 58)
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Resting place
Spouse
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(m. 1894)​
Children
  • First World War
Teck-Cambridge Family
Francis, Duke of Teck
Children
Mary, Queen of the United Kingdom
Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge
Prince Francis of Teck
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
Adolphus Cambridge,
 1st Marquess of Cambridge
Children
George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort
Lady Helena Gibbs
Lord Frederick Cambridge
Grandchildren
Lady Mary Whitley
Alexander Cambridge,
 1st Earl of Athlone
Children
Lady May Abel Smith
Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon
Prince Maurice of Teck

Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge,

JP, ADC (Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus; 13 August 1869 – 24 October 1927), born Prince Adolphus of Teck and later the Duke of Teck, was a relative of the British royal family, a great-grandson of George III and younger brother of Queen Mary, the wife of George V. In 1900, he succeeded his father as Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg. He relinquished his German titles in 1917 to become Marquess of Cambridge
.

Early life

Prince Adolphus of Teck was born on 13 August 1869 at

George III. Adolphus was styled His Serene Highness Prince Adolphus of Teck at birth. With a string of nine Christian names, among his immediate family he was always known as "Dolly", a pet form of 'Adolphus'. He was educated at Wellington College in Berkshire
.

Early military career

Prince Adolphus was a cavalry officer, following in the footsteps of his father, both of his grandfathers, and his maternal uncle. He received his education at

the Duke of Cambridge, who was the commander-in-chief of the British Army from 1856 to 1895. He was promoted lieutenant in January 1893,[2] and transferred to the 1st Life Guards as a captain in June 1895.[3]

Marriage

On 12 December 1894, at

Eaton Hall, he married Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor (9 April 1874 – 27 March 1929), the daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster
. The couple had 4 children:

  • Prince George of Teck, later 2nd Marquess of Cambridge (11 October 1895 – 16 April 1981); married 1923 Dorothy Hastings (18 May 1899 – 1 April 1988).
  • Princess Mary of Teck, later Lady Mary Cambridge (12 June 1897 – 23 June 1987); married 1923 the 10th Duke of Beaufort (4 April 1900 – 4 February 1984).
  • Princess Helena of Teck, later Lady Helena Cambridge (23 October 1899 – 22 December 1969); married 1919 Colonel John Evelyn Gibbs (22 December 1879 – 11 October 1932).
  • Prince Frederick of Teck, later Lord Frederick Cambridge (23 September 1907 – 15 May 1940).

Duke of Teck and later military career

In January 1900, Adolphus succeeded his father as Duke of Teck. The new Duke served with his regiment during the

lieutenant-colonel and appointed a temporary military attaché at the British embassy in Vienna.[5] His appointment as military attaché was confirmed in April 1906,[6] and he received a staff posting the same month.[7] He was promoted to the substantive rank of major in December 1906,[8] and was raised to brevet lieutenant-colonel in November 1910.[9]

With an

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB). From other nations he received the grand cross of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia and the Order of the Star of Romania.[11]

He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 8th Battalion, London Regiment, known as the Post Office Rifles in 1912,[12] relinquishing the position in 1923.[13]

From 1914 to his death he was Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle.[13]

With the outbreak of the

Croix de guerre, as well as the French Legion of Honour (Grand Officer).[17]

Following ill-health he was placed on half-pay in July 1916,[18] and retired pay in 1919.[19]

Marquess of Cambridge

During the First World War, anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom led Teck's brother-in-law,

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more English-sounding House of Windsor
. The King also renounced all his Germanic titles for himself and all members of the British Royal Family who were British subjects.

In response to this, Teck renounced, through a Royal Warrant from the King,[20] dated 14 July 1917, his title of Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg and the style His Highness. Adolphus, along with his brother, Prince Alexander of Teck, adopted the name Cambridge, after their grandfather, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.[20]

He was subsequently created Marquess of Cambridge, Earl of Eltham, and Viscount Northallerton all in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His elder son took the title Earl of Eltham as a courtesy title. His younger children became Lord/Lady (Christian Name) Cambridge.[20]

muse and PR representative, was rumoured to be Adolphus' illegitimate daughter.[citation needed
] Hal Vaughan, in his 2012 biography of Coco Chanel ('Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War', p. 42), describes Vera Bate Lombardi as a 'cousin and childhood friend' of Edward, Prince of Wales.

Lord Cambridge made his home in

Royal Salop Infirmary at Shrewsbury in 1925.[17] He hosted visits made by his sister to the county, the last in his lifetime being a public visit to Shrewsbury and other parts of Shropshire in August 1927.[17]

During that period [year needed] Lord Cambridge was considered as a candidate for the then vacant throne of Hungary. He declined the invitation, having treated the idea with some amusement by remarking "Don't you think I would make a nice looking King?"[17]

Death

Lord Cambridge died, aged fifty-nine, after an intestinal operation in October 1927 at a Shrewsbury nursing home, while preparations were being made for another public royal visit to the town (which was consequently cancelled) by his nephew, the Prince of Wales (later

St George's Chapel and later transferred to the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore.[21] His elder son, the Earl of Eltham, succeeded him as Marquess of Cambridge
.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

Honours

Arms

Coat of arms of Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge
Crest
A Dog's Head and Neck lozengy bendy sinister Sable and Or, langued Gules.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st & 4th grand-quarters, The Royal Arms as borne by King George III, differenced by a Label of three-points Argent, the centre point charged with a Cross Gules, and each of the other points with two Hearts in pale Gules; 2nd & 3rd grand-quarters, Or, three Stags' Attires fesswise in pale, the points of each Attire to the sinister Sable, impaling Or three Lions passant in pale Sable, langued Gules, the dexter forepaws Gules; over all an Inescutcheon lozengy bendy sinister Sable and Or (Teck).
Supporters
Dexter: a Lion Sable, the dexter forepaw Gules.
Sinister: a Stag Proper.
Motto
FEARLESS AND FAITHFUL
Orders
Order of the Bath (knight grand cross)
Symbolism
The second and third quarterings represent his descent from the Dukes of Württemberg

Ancestry

Family tree

Footnotes

  1. ^ "No. 25806". The London Gazette. 10 April 1888. p. 2070.
  2. ^ "No. 26366". The London Gazette. 24 January 1893. p. 412.
  3. ^ "No. 26637". The London Gazette. 25 June 1895. p. 3592.
  4. ^ "No. 27359". The London Gazette. 27 September 1901. p. 6304.
  5. ^ "No. 27661". The London Gazette. 25 March 1904. p. 1948.
  6. ^ "No. 27906". The London Gazette. 20 April 1906. p. 2747.
  7. ^ "No. 27910". The London Gazette. 4 May 1906. p. 3078.
  8. ^ "No. 27975". The London Gazette. 11 December 1906. p. 8728.
  9. ^ "No. 28438". The London Gazette. 18 November 1910. p. 8789.
  10. ^ Royal Styles and Titles – 1911 Order-in-Council
  11. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1913. Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 38.Section The Royal Lineage, under descendants of George III. The German and Austrian orders were not listed in his entry after World War I, having apparently renounced them as honours of then enemy countries.
  12. ^ "No. 28629". The London Gazette. 23 July 1912. p. 5422.
  13. ^ a b c Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. 1926. p. 333.
  14. ^ War Diary 1st Life Guards 1914–1915, "No. 28969". The London Gazette. 10 November 1914. p. 9133.
  15. ^ "No. 29218". The London Gazette. 6 July 1915. p. 6583.
  16. ^ "No. 29476". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 February 1916. p. 1777.
  17. ^ a b c d e "Death of the Marquess of Cambridge". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 25 October 1927. p. 7.
  18. ^ "No. 29771". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 October 1916. p. 9536.
  19. ^ "No. 31639". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 November 1919. p. 13754.
  20. ^ a b c "No. 30374". The London Gazette. 9 November 1917. pp. 11592–11594.
  21. ^ "Royal Burials in the Chapel since 1805". College of St George - Windsor Castle. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  22. ^ "The London Gazette, Issue 24696, Page 2237". 17 March 1879.
  23. ^ "The London Gazette, Supplement 28401, Page 5477". 26 July 1910.
  24. ^ "The Edinburgh Gazette, Issue 12370, Page 681". 7 July 1911.
  25. ^ a b "The London Gazette, Issue 30374, Page 11593". 9 November 1917.
  26. ^ a b Shaw, William Arthur (1906). The Knights of England. Vol. 1. London: Sharrett & Hughes. pp. 418, 432.
  27. ^ "No. 28380". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1910. p. 3859.
  28. ^ "No. 28505". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 June 1911. p. 4594.
  29. ^ "Königliche Orden", Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg, Stuttgart: Landesamt, 1907, p. 29
  30. ^ "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen". Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Mecklenburg-Strelitz: 1907 (in German). Neustrelitz: Druck und Debit der Buchdruckerei von G. F. Spalding und Sohn. 1907. p. 14.
  31. ^ "Goldener Löwen-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 3 – via hathitrust.org
  32. ^ "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1914, pp. 97-98, 181
  33. ^ "No. 29486". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 February 1916. p. 2075.
  34. ^ "No. 29854". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 December 1916. p. 12039.

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Preceded by Duke of Teck
1900–1917 		Title relinquished
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New creation Marquess of Cambridge
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