| 词条 | Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Viscount Valentia | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCVO|CB|JP}} | image = Arthur Annesley Vanity Fair 14 September 1899.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = "Oxford City". Lord Valentia as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, September 1899. | order1 = Comptroller of the Household | term_start1 = 19 October 1898 | term_end1 = 4 December 1905 | monarch1 = Queen Victoria Edward VII | primeminister1 = The Marquess of Salisbury Arthur Balfour | predecessor1 = Lord Arthur Hill | successor1 = The Master of Elibank | birth_date = {{birth date|1843|8|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|1927|1|20|1843|8|23|df=yes}} | death_place = | nationality = British | party = Conservative | alma_mater = Royal Military Academy, Woolwich | spouse = Laura Sarah Webb (died 1933); 8 children}} Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCVO|CB|JP}} (23 August 1843 – 20 January 1927) was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative Party politician. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household between 1898 and 1905. Background and educationAnnesley was the eldest son of the Honourable Arthur Annesley by his wife Flora Mary [1] Macdonald, daughter of Lt. Colonel James Macdonald of Clanranald. His father died when he was one year old[2] and he succeeded his grandfather in the viscountcy in 1863. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. {{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} Military careerAnnesley joined the 10th Hussars in 1864 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1868. He retired from the Army in 1872, but in 1894 was appointed Lieutenant colonel of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. In early 1900, Lord Valentia was seconded for service with the Imperial Yeomanry in the Second Boer War,[3] and left for South Africa in the SS Scot in late January.[4] He served as Assistant Adjutant-General for Imperial Yeomanry, with the temporary rank of Colonel,[5] and was mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in November 1900 for his services.[6] Upon relinquishing his commission, he was granted, on 1 January 1901, the honorary rank of Colonel in the Army.[7] Political careerHe was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1874–75. The viscountcy of Valentia was an Irish peerage and did not entitle Annesley to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He was instead elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford in 1895, a seat he held until 1917. {{citation needed|date=April 2014}} He served as Comptroller of the Household under Lord Salisbury from 1898[8] to 1902 and under Arthur Balfour from 1902-05.[9] He was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in July 1901.[10] When the coalition government was formed in 1915, Lord Valentia was appointed a Lord in Waiting,[11] a post he held until 1924. In 1917 he was created Baron Annesley of Bletchington, in the County of Oxford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,[12] which entitled him to a seat in the House of Lords. He was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1923.[13] FamilyLord Valentia married, on 30 January 1878, Laura Sarah Webb, daughter of Daniel Hale Webb, of Wykeham Park, Oxfordshire, and widow of Sir Algernon William Peyton, 4th Baronet.[14] They had two sons and six daughters.
DeathLord Valentia died in January 1927, aged 83, and was succeeded by his younger son, the Hon. Caryl Arthur James Annesley, as Lord Valentia's elder son, the Hon. Arthur Annesley, was killed in action in 1914.[2] PoloHe was the Chairman of the Hurlingham Club Committee and the National Polo Pony Society.[17] ReferencesCitations1. ^Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 2. ^1 thepeerage.com Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia 3. ^{{London Gazette| issue=27159 |page=691 |date=30 January 1900}} 4. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=The War - Embarcation at Southampton |day_of_week=Monday |date=29 January 1900 |page_number=10 |issue=36051| }} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27155|date=19 January 1900|page=362}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27359|date=27 September 1901|page=6305}} 7. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27406|date=14 February 1902|page=938}} 8. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27016|date=21 October 1898|page=6140}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27866|date=22 December 1905 |page=9171}} 10. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27336|date=23 July 1901|page=4837}} 11. ^{{London Gazette|issue=29189|date=11 June 1915|page=5630 }} 12. ^{{London Gazette|issue=30055|date=8 May 1917|page=4356}} 13. ^{{London Gazette|issue=32830|date=1 June 1923|page=3947}} 14. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Ruvigny (1907), p. 237 15. ^Ruvigny (1907), p. 237 ; Memorial Inscription at Ieper Stedelijke Begraafplaats, Ypres, Belgium (see [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12736463 entry] at findagrave.com, as accessed on 26 June 2014.) 16. ^Ruvigny (1907), p. 237 ; Memorial Inscription at St Giles Churchyard, Bletchington, England (see entry at findagrave.com, as accessed on 26 June 2014.) 17. ^Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in Britain: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, 2012, p. 10 Bibliography
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