domingo, 17 de agosto de 2014

Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

Colonel Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl CB, DSO (7 February 1857 – 23 October 1952) was an Irish Peer, British Army officer and a Conservative Member of Parliament for South Glamorganshire 1895–1906.
Background
He was the son of Captain Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin (1829-1865), a younger son of Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, by his wife Caroline Tyler, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir George Tyler. He succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his kinsman Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, who died in 1926 without male issue.
Military and political career
Wyndham-Quin was a Major in the 16th Lancers, and served in the First Boer War in 1881.
He again served in South Africa in 1900, during the Second Boer War, when he raised and commanded the Glamorgan Imperial Yeomanry. He was mentioned in despatches, received the Queen’s medal (3 clasps), and was awarded the...

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