| 词条 | Denzil Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue |
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable |name=The Earl of Fortescue | honorific_suffix = |birth_name=Denzil George Fortescue |birth_date={{birth date|1893|6|13|df=y}} |death_date={{death date and age|1977|6|1|1893|6|13|df=y}} |birth_place= Castle Hill, Devon, England |death_place= Ebrington, Gloucestershire |image=Denzil Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue.jpg |imagesize=200px |caption= |allegiance={{flag|United Kingdom}} |branch={{army|United Kingdom}} |serviceyears= 1915–1918 1939–1944 |rank=Lieutenant colonel |commands= Royal Devon Yeomanry; 1st Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery |battles= First World War Second World War |awards= Military Cross }} Denzil George Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue MC TD (13 June 1893 – 1 June 1977) was a British peer and farmer who served in both the First World War and Second World War. Early life and educationFortescue was the third born and second surviving son of Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue and Hon. Emily Ormsby-Gore, daughter of William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech.[1] He grew up at the family estate at Castle Hill, North Devon. He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, where he studied under William Archibald Spooner.[2] He received the Military Cross in 1919:[3] CareerHe joined the Royal North Devon Yeomanry and in 1915 was sent to Gallipoli. After suffering a severe bout of dysentery, he returned home to recover. He rejoined the war in 1916 in France, where he fought at the Battle of the Somme. In four weeks, he fought in six battles.[2] {{pull quote |text=For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during operations at Forest and Preux-au-Bois on 25 October and 4 November 1918. He rode forward amongst the attacking troops for the purpose of gaining firsthand knowledge of the situation at a critical period of the battle, and sent back information of the greatest value.|author=Citation in The London Gazette|source= 9 December 1919[4]}}Fortescue was commanding officer of the Royal Devon Yeomanry 1935-1941, and commanding officer of the 1st Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1942-1944.[2] In 1958, he succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his older brother, Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue, whose only son, Hugh, Viscount Ebrington had been killed at El Alamein in 1942. He became a "regular attender and occasional speaker at the House of Lords."[2] He lived at the family seat, Ebrington Manor, where he became a successful fruit farmer.[2] Marriages and childrenHe married, firstly, Marjorie Ellinor Trotter, the granddaughter of John Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, on 10 June 1920 and they were divorced in 1941. They had three children:
Fortescue married, secondly, Hon. Sybil Hardinge, daughter of Henry Hardinge, 3rd Viscount Hardinge, on 8 August 1941 - she had divorced her first husband Hugh Douglas-Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn earlier in 1941. They had one son:
DeathThe sixth earl died 1 June 1977, just shy of his 84th birthday. A monument was erected in his honour at St Eadburgha's Church in Ebrington.[5] References1. ^{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|date=1902|publisher=Dean & Son, Limited|location=London|page=343|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA343}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news |title=Earl Fortescue: War service and fruit farming |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |page=16 |date=8 June 1977 }} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 31266 |date=1 April 1919|page=4327 |supp=y}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 31680 |date=9 December 1919|page=15333 |supp=y}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Raffield|first1=Paul|title=Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law|date=2010|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=1-84731-606-9|page=162|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBPcBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162}} External links
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