Robert Kingscote

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Vanity Fair in 1880.
Commissioner of Woods and Forests
In office
1885–1895
Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West
In office
1852-1885
Personal details
Born(1830-02-28)28 February 1830
Died22 September 1908(1908-09-22) (aged 78)
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)
Caroline Wyndham
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(m. 1851; died 1852)​

Scots Fusilier Guards
Commands heldRoyal North Gloucestershire Militia
Battles/warsCrimean War

JP[1] (28 February 1830 – 22 September 1908) was a British soldier, Liberal
politician, courtier and agriculturalist. He was generally known as Sir Nigel Kingscote.

Biography

Kingscote was the son of Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote, of Kingscote Park, Gloucestershire, by his first wife, Lady Isabella Anne Frances, daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. His mother died when he was less than one year old, shortly after the birth of her second child, a daughter. His brother, Thomas Kingscote, also joined the Royal Household.[citation needed]

Military career

Kingscote was commissioned in to the

4th (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment) on 28 January 1862 and retained the position until the unit's disbandment in 1908.[4][5][6][7]

Political career

Kingscote was Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West between 1852 and 1885.[8] He was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1856.[9] The latter year he was appointed a Commissioner of Woods and Forests,[10] a post he held until 1895. He was also a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and a Trustee of the manor of Horsley.[11]

Court positions

Kingscote was a

Edward VII between 1901 and 1902 and Paymaster-General of the Royal Household between 1901[16]
and 1908.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1855, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1889. After the accession of King Edward VII, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order GCVO) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours,[17] and was invested with the insignia by the King at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.[18]

Agriculture

Kingscote was also involved in agricultural affairs and served as President of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1878.[citation needed]

Family

Lady Emily Marie Kingscote (née Curzon); Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge Kingscote, 1860, by Camille Silvy

Kingscote was twice married.[citation needed]

He married firstly the Hon. Caroline Sophia Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, in 1851. She died in childbirth on 19 March 1852 at Drove, Westhampnett in West Sussex: her newborn son died on the same day.[citation needed]

Kingscote married secondly

Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson. His daughter Winifred married Lord Rocksavage, later Marquess of Cholmondeley, on 16 July 1879.[19] Kingscote died in September 1908, aged 78. Lady Kingscote died in December 1910.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ "No. 25951". The London Gazette. 5 July 1889. p. 25951.
  2. ^ "No. 25951". The London Gazette. 5 July 1889. p. 25951.
  3. ^ "No. 25951". The London Gazette. 5 July 1889. p. 25951.
  4. ^ "No. 25951". The London Gazette. 5 July 1889. p. 25951.
  5. Gwent Record Office
    NRA 28994.
  6. ^ Army List, various dates.
  7. ^ Maj Wilfred Joseph Cripps (revised by Capt Hon M.H. Hicks-Beach & Maj B.N. Spraggett), The Royal North Gloucester Militia, 2nd Edn, Cirencester: Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard Printing Works, 1914, Appendix A.
  8. ^ leighrayment.com[usurped]
  9. ^ "No. 21873". The London Gazette. 18 April 1856. p. 1467.
  10. ^ "No. 25951". The London Gazette. 5 July 1889. p. 25951.
  11. ^ "Horsley: Manor and other estates Pages 177-179 A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1976". British History Online. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  12. ^ "No. 23152". The London Gazette. 17 August 1866. p. 4593.
  13. ^ "No. 25468". The London Gazette. 8 May 1885. p. 2104.
  14. The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser
    . NSW. 28 August 1886. p. 22 Supplement: Third Sheet to The Maitland Mercury. Retrieved 2 November 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "No. 25868". The London Gazette. 23 October 1888. p. 5753.
  16. ^ "No. 27294". The London Gazette. 15 March 1901. p. 1847.
  17. ^ "No. 27493". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 November 1902. pp. 7161–7163.
  18. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36955. London. 19 December 1902. p. 4.
  19. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. 17 July 1879. p. 8.

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