Eustace Maude, 7th Viscount Hawarden

Major Eustace Wyndham Maude, 7th Viscount Hawarden JP (20 September 1877 – 6 April 1958) was a British Army officer, peer and colonial official.[1]

Maude was the son of Ludlow Eustace Maude and Clara Louisa Madden, and the great-grandson of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden.[citation needed] He was educated at Bloxham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment on 4 April 1900.[2] He was promoted to Major in 1910 while serving with the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in Egypt. He succeeded to the title Viscount Hawarden on 26 August 1914.[3] It was due to the battlefield death of his cousin, Lt. Robert Cornwallis Maude, at Mons.[4] He saw active service in the First World War, during which he was mentioned in dispatches. He was subsequently a provincial governor in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He held the office of Justice of the Peace.[citation needed]

He married Marion Wright, daughter of Albert Leslie Wright of Butterley Hall and Margaretta Agnes Plumptre, on 17 November 1920.[3] Together they had three children.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Debrett (Hesilrige 1921, p. 458) was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ The London Gazette (17 April 1900) https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27183/page/2510/data.pdf
  3. ^ a b (Hesilrige 1921)
  4. ^ Robert Cornwallis Maude, Viscount Hawarden on Lives of the First World War