Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

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FSA
In 1962 by Elliott & Fry.
Born(1915-11-03)3 November 1915
Ightham, Kent
Died22 June 2006(2006-06-22) (aged 90)
Harrietsham, Kent,
Resting placeAll Saints' Church, Brenchley, Kent, England
NationalityBritish
EducationHarrow School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Military officer and administrator
Spouse
Marianna Laetitia Bower
​
​
(m. 1950)​
Children5, including
Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (father)
RelativesValerie Goulding (sister)

FSA (3 November 1915 – 22 June 2006) served in the British Army from 1939 to 1967. He was Army director of public relations in the 1960s when the conduct of the Army's personnel came under scrutiny during the Profumo affair
.

Early life

Monckton was the only son of

Abdication Crisis
in 1936.

Education and Second World War

Monckton was educated at

Roman Catholicism at the University of Cambridge
.

After Cambridge, Monckton immediately joined the Army, being commissioned into the

GSO2 in the 7th Armoured Division
.

Monckton was appointed as a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and was promoted to Bailiff Grand Cross of Obedience of the Order. He was an active supporter and long-serving member of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, in which he held the rank of Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Justice, and was a Knight Grand Cross of its sister order the Royal Order of Francis I.[1]

Korean War

He returned to his regiment to command "A"

lieutenant-colonel and served in the War Office, and was appointed OBE in 1956. He then commanded the 12th Royal Lancers in Germany for two years, and next was promoted brigadier in 1961 and took a staff posting to the War Office as deputy director of personnel administration.[citation needed
]

He was promoted major general in 1963, and became Army director of public relations, dealing with press scrutiny into the behaviour of soldiers in Germany in the aftermath of unhelpful comments from the Secretary of State for War, John Profumo. He became chief of staff at the Headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine in 1965. He was appointed a Commander of the Belgian Order of the Crown in 1965 (Leopold III of Belgium was Colonel of his regiment), and Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1966. He left the army in 1967 but was colonel of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers from 1967 to 1973.[citation needed]

Retirement years

In retirement, he ran his 350-acre (1.4 km2) farm near

Deputy Lieutenant of Kent from 1970, and his wife was High Sheriff of Kent in 1981 and 1982. He was interested in archaeology, and pursued an active interest in heraldry, being President of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies for 35 years (1965–2000). He became a Grand Officer of the Belgian Order of Leopold II in 1978. He lost his right to sit and vote in the House of Lords in 1999;[2] in his attempt to become one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers, he submitted a manifesto which included "I support the Queen and all the royal family... All cats to be muzzled outside to stop the agonising torture of mice and small birds... LEVEL UP not level down. God willing."[3][4]

Family and issue

Monckton married Marianna Laetitia Bower (1929–2022), a Roman Catholic and the daughter of Commander

St John's Ambulance, Patroness of the Heart of Kent Hospice, and High Sheriff of Kent (1981–82). She died peacefully in July 2022, aged 93, at her home in Harrietsham
, Kent.

The couple had five children:

Arms

Coat of arms of Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Crest
A martlet Or.
Escutcheon
1st & 4th Sable on a chevron between three martlets Or three mullets Sable (Monckton) 2nd & 3rd Or a chevron Gules a chief Vair (St Quintin).
Supporters
On either side a horse Argent crined and unguled Or gorged with a chain Gold pendant therefrom an escutcheon Sable charged with a roses also Argent barbed and seeded Proper quartering St Quintin (Gules a chevron Or a chief Vair).
Motto
Famam Extendere Factis [6]
Badge
Within an annulet a martlet Or.

References

  1. ^ Patrick W. Montague-Smith, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2000), p. 1163
  2. ^ "Viscount Monckton of Brenchley". UK Parliament. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  3. ^ Wheen, Francis (27 October 1999). "Peers under Pressure: Francis Wheen on Hereditary members' attempts to survive". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  4. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  5. ^ Dominic Lawson claim re snub to father-in-law over conversion
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1959.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Walter Monckton
 Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
1965–2006 		Succeeded by
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