Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue
Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue
Origins
Fortescue was the son of
Career
Education
He was educated at
Local career in Devon
He was a captain in the North Devon Hussar Yeoman Cavalry and became Colonel of the North Devon Yeomanry. He was a
National career
He was at one time private secretary to
Parliamentary career
In 1881 Fortescue was elected as a
Purchases Exmoor Forest
When Viscount Ebrington he purchased the reversion of about 20,000 acres comprising the former
Death and burial
He died at the age of 78.
Marriage and children
Fortescue married his cousin, Hon. Emily Ormsby-Gore, daughter of William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech, on 15 July 1886. They had three children:
- Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue(1888–1958)
- Geoffrey Faithful Fortescue (1891–1900), died young.
- Denzil George Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue(1893–1977)
Further reading
Batten, Richard (2018). A Lord Lieutenant in Wartime: The Experiences of the Fourth Earl Fortescue during the First World War. Devon and Cornwall Record Society/Boydell & Brewer.
References
- ^ "Ebrington, Hugh, Viscount (EBRN872H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 978-1-107-60006-5.
- ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ^ Reminiscences of Lady Margaret Fortescue, (daughter of 5th Earl) recorded in 2001, in which she states her grandfather purchased Exmoor Forest, i.e. 4th Earl. Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p.79 appears to be in error when she states the 2nd Earl (d.1861) to have made the purchase
- ^ Evered, Philip. Staghunting with the Devon and Somerset, An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer, 1902, p.270