Gustavus Michael George Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne KCVO, JP (10 December 1931 – 14 December 1995)[1] was an Irish peer, soldier and banker.
Background
editHe was the son of Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell,[2] oldest son of Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 9th Viscount Boyne and Lady Margaret Selina Lascelles, and his wife Joan Verena Lloyd-Verney, only daughter of Sir Harry Lloyd-Verney by his wife Lady Joan Cuffe, elder daughter of Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart.
His father having died of wounds received at the Western Front in 1940,[3] he succeeded his grandfather as viscount two years later.[4] He was educated at Eton College and went then to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.[4] He studied later at the Royal Agricultural College.
Career
editBoyne was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1952, serving as the Ensign during Trooping the Colour in 1953, retiring as lieutenant.[4] In 1961, he was nominated Justice of the Peace for Shropshire and in 1965, a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county. He became director of the National Westminster Bank in 1976, leaving in 1990.
Boyne was appointed a Lord-in-waiting in 1981[5] and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1994,[6] holding both posts until his death in 1995.
Boyne was a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John, and in the latter year he was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.[7]
Family
editOn 11 April 1956, he married Rosemary Anne Stucley, second daughter of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet. They had three daughters and a son. Boyne died aged 64, only days after his birthday and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his only son Gustavus, "Tavie."[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "LD. HAREWOOD'S NEPHEW KILLED". Liverpool Evening Express. 5 June 1940. p. 1. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Blue Blood in Flanders". Time. 17 June 1940. Archived from the original on 16 December 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
- ^ a b c Who is Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1963. p. 380.
- ^ "No. 48669". The London Gazette. 3 July 1981. p. 8903.
- ^ "Institute of Historical Research - Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (England & Wales) 1974-". Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
- ^ "No. 54066". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1995. p. 4.