Charles Adeane

{{Short description|British army officer (1863–1943)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox military person | name = Charles Adeane | image = Charles Adeane.jpg | caption = | birth_date = 2 November 1863 | death_date = 11 February 1943 (aged 79) | birth_place = | death_place = | burial_place = | burial_label = | burial_coordinates =  | nickname = | birth_name = | allegiance = {{UK}} | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = | rank = Honorary Colonel | service_number = | unit = 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment Cambridgeshire Volunteer Regiment | commands = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath Order of St Sava of Serbia Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown | relations = Humphrey Lyttelton (grandson) | other_work = Justice of the peace Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire President of the Royal Agricultural Society | signature = }} '''Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|JP}} (2 November 1863 – 11 February 1943)<ref name = Hull>{{cite web | url = http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal28878 | title = University of Hull – Royal Genealogical Data | accessdate =8 July 2009 }}</ref> was a British army officer.

==Background== Adeane was the only son of the politician Henry John Adeane and his wife Lady Elizabeth Philippa Yorke, eldest daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke.<ref name = "Who'sWho"/> Adeane was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.<ref name = Walford>{{cite book | last = Walford | first = Edward | publisher = Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd. | title = The County Families of the United Kingdom | volume = LIX | year = 1919 | location = London | pages = 8 }}</ref> He received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Cambridge.<ref name = "Who'sWho">{{cite book | title = Who is Who 1935 | publisher = Adam & Charles Black Ltd. | location = London | year = 1935 | pages = 21 }}</ref>

==Career== He served in the British Army and was lieutenant of the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.<ref name = Walford/> During this time Adeane was decorated with the Order of St Sava of Serbia.<ref name = Walford/> After his retirement he became Honorary Colonel of the Cambridgeshire Volunteer Regiment.<ref name = Walford/> Adeane was justice of the peace and Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire from 1915 until his death in 1943.<ref name = ThePeerage/> In 1917, he was appointed President of the Royal Agricultural Society.<ref name = ThePeerage/> In the latter year, Adeane was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath<ref>{{ London Gazette | issue = 29938 |page=1458 | date = 9 February 1917 }}</ref> and in 1920, he was invested as an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown.<ref>{{ London Gazette | issue = 31928 | supp = y |page=6174 | date = 1 June 1920 }}</ref>

{{Election box begin |title=General Election 1900: Huntingdon<ref name=craig>F. W. S. Craig (1989), ''British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885–1918.'' Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 299</ref> }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = George Montagu |votes = 2,118 |percentage = 53.5 |change = −0.4 }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Charles Adeane |votes = 1,838 |percentage = 46.5 |change = +0.4 }} {{Election box majority |votes = 280 |percentage = 7.0 |change = −0.8 }} {{Election box turnout |votes = 3,956 |percentage = 75.8 |change = −6.8 }} {{Election box registered electors |reg. electors = 5,222 }} {{Election box hold with party link |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = −0.4 }} {{Election box end}}

==Family== [[File:Sargentwyndhams.jpg|thumb|left|''The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant'', by John Singer Sargent, 1899 (Metropolitan Museum)]]

On 23 July 1888, he married Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham, daughter of Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, a son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield.<ref name = Hull/> They had seven children, two sons and five daughters.<ref name = ThePeerage>{{cite web | url= http://thepeerage.com/p8274.htm#i82740| title= ThePeerage – Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane | accessdate=16 December 2006}}</ref> His daughter Helena Olivia Adeane (1902–1985) was the first wife of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor and mother of the 8th Earl of Radnor.

His grandson, through his eldest daughter, Pamela, was the jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton.

His grandson, through his fourth daughter, Lettice, was Sir Timothy Colman {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KG|}} of the Colman's mustard family.

{{s-start}} {{s-hon}} {{s-bef| before = The Viscount Clifden }} {{s-ttl| title = Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire | years = 1915 – 1943 }} {{s-aft| after = Richard George Briscoe }} {{s-end}}

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