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⚫ '''Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale''', ], ] (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), of ] Park, ], and ], ], was a ] diplomat, collector and writer. Nicknamed "Barty", he was the paternal grandfather of the ].
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⚫ '''Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCVO|KCB|JP|DL|FRPS}} (24 February 1837{{snd}}17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and writer, whose most notable work is '']'' (1871). Nicknamed "Bertie", he was the paternal grandfather of the ].


==Early years== ==Early years==
Freeman-Mitford was the son of Henry Reveley Mitford (1804–1883) of ], ], ] and the great-grandson of the ] ], and was educated at ] and ]. While his paternal ancestors were ], whose holdings had once included ] in ], his mother (Georgiana) Jemima was a daughter of the courtier the ], with a noble ancestry through the earls of Beverley. His parents separated in 1840 when Redesdale was just three years old, and his mother remarried to a Mr. Molyneaux. Mitford was the son of Henry Reveley Mitford (1804–1883), of ], Hampshire, and great-grandson of the historian ]. He was educated at ] and ], where he read ]. While his paternal ancestors were ], whose holdings included ] in Northumberland, his mother Lady (Georgiana) Jemima Ashburnham was the daughter of the ] and ].{{Sfn|Mosley|2003|p=3305}} After his parents separated in 1840, his father, an erstwhile attaché at ],<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dwzAQAAMAAJ |title=The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book |date=1881 |publisher=Harrison. |pages=149 |language=en |chapter=Statements of Services: Mitford, Algernon Bertram}}</ref> resided in Germany and France; his early years were thus spent on the Continent.{{Sfn|Guinness|1984|p=21-22}}


Like his cousin ], he was named Algernon after his grandfather ]. Like his cousin ], he was named Algernon after his great-grandfather ],<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last=Acton |first=Harold |title=Nancy Mitford: A Memoir |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1975 |isbn=0-06-010018-4 |location=New York |pages=2–4}}</ref> but always went by his middle-name Bertram and was known familiarly as "Bertie" (pronounced "''Barty''").{{Sfn|Guinness|1984|p=7}}


==Career== ==Career==

===Diplomacy=== ===Diplomacy===
Entering the ] in 1858, Mitford was appointed Third Secretary of the British Embassy in ]. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in ], he went to ] as second secretary to the British Legation at the time of the exciting but difficult ]. There he met ] and wrote '']'' (1871), a book credited with making such classical Japanese tales as "]" first known to a wide Western public. He resigned from the diplomatic service in 1873. Entering the ] in 1858, Mitford was appointed Third Secretary of the British Embassy at ]. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in ], he went to Japan in 1866 as second secretary to the British Legation at the time of the migration of the Japanese seat of power from ] to Edo (modern-day ]), known as the "]".<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Morton |first=Robert |date=2017 |title=A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State: Letters Home |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1s17p1q |journal=Amsterdam University Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctt1s17p1q |jstor=j.ctt1s17p1q |isbn=978-1-898823-48-3 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> There he met ] whom he travelled with across the hinterland of Japan.{{Sfn|Cortazzi|2003|p=23}}{{Sfn|Cortazzi|2003|p=194-195}} He later wrote '']'' (1871), a book credited with making such Japanese Classics as "]" first known to a wide Western public. He resigned from the diplomatic service in 1873.<ref name=":1" />


Following the 1902 ], in 1906 he accompanied ] on a visit to Japan to present the ] with the ]. He was asked by courtiers there about Japanese ceremonies that had disappeared since 1868. He is one of the people credited with introducing ] to England. Following the 1902 ], in 1906 Mitford accompanied ] on a visit to Japan to present the ] with the ]. He was asked by courtiers there about Japanese ceremonies that had disappeared since 1868.{{Sfn|Cortazzi|2003|p=195}}


===Public life=== ===Public life===
From 1874 to 1886 Mitford acted as secretary to HM Office of Works, involved in the lengthy restoration of the ] and in landscaping parts of ] such as "The Dell". From 1887, he was a member of the Royal Commission on Civil Services. He also sat as ] for ] between 1892 and 1895. From 1874 to 1886, Mitford acted as secretary to HM Office of Works, involved in the lengthy restoration of the ] and in landscaping parts of ] such as "The Dell". From 1887, he was a member of the Royal Commission on Civil Services. He also sat as ] for ] between 1892 and 1895.{{Sfn|Cortazzi|2003|p=23}}


According to ], Mitford served as a consultant on Japanese culture to Gilbert and ] during the development of their 1885 ] '']''. A traditional Japanese song hummed by Mitford to Gilbert and Sullivan during a rehearsal was used in the opera for the march accompanying the Mikado's entrance.<ref name=gilbert>{{cite news|last=Gilbert|first=W. S.|title=The Mikado: Mr. Gilbert Explains a Famous Air|url=http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/gilbert/letters/morn_lead/mikado.html|accessdate=23 May 2013|newspaper=Morning Leader|page=5|date=2 May 1907}}</ref> According to ], Mitford served as a consultant on Japanese culture to Gilbert and ] during the development of their 1885 ] '']''. A traditional Japanese song hummed by Mitford to Gilbert and Sullivan during a rehearsal was used in the opera for the march accompanying the Mikado's entrance.<ref name=gilbert>{{cite news |last=Gilbert |first=W. S. |author-link=W. S. Gilbert |title=The Mikado: Mr. Gilbert Explains a Famous Air |url=https://www.gsarchive.net/gilbert/letters/morn_lead/mikado.html |accessdate=23 May 2013 |newspaper=] |page=5 |date=2 May 1907 }}</ref>


In 1886, Mitford inherited the substantial country estates of his first cousin twice removed, ]. In accordance with the will he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Freeman. Appointed a ] for ], he became a magistrate and took up farming and horse breeding. He was a member of the ] from 1889 to 1914.<ref>Cortazzi H., "Mitford's Japan: memories and recollections, 1866-1906" p.xxiii</ref> Redesdale was President of the ] between 1910-1912. <ref>http://www.rps.org/about/history/past-presidents Accessed 7 May 2013</ref> In 1886, Mitford inherited the substantial ] estates of his cousin, ]. In accordance with the will, he assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Freeman.{{Sfn|Kidd|Williamson|2003}} Appointed a ] and ] for Gloucestershire, he became a magistrate and took up farming and horse breeding. He was a member of the ] from 1889 to 1914.{{Sfn|Cortazzi|2003|p=22–23}} Redesdale joined the ] in 1907 and became a Fellow in 1908.<ref name=":2">Obituary. The Right Hon. Lord Redesdale, '']'', November 1916, p. 250.</ref> He was President of the Royal Photographic Society between 1910 and 1912.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Presidents |url=http://www.rps.org/about/history/past-presidents |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714064905/http://rps.org/about/history/past-presidents |archive-date=14 July 2014 |access-date=6 May 2014 |publisher=]}} Accessed 7 May 2013.</ref>


He substantially rebuilt Batsford House beside ] in ] in the Victorian Gothic manorial style, but at such a cost that it had to be sold within a few years of his death. It was bought by ] and is still owned by his descendants. Mitford substantially rebuilt Batsford Park, ], Gloucestershire, in the Victorian Gothic manorial style. He also installed the ].<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Page |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0iSwulzLKI0C |title=The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester |date=1965 |publisher=A. Constable, Limited |isbn=9780197227961 |pages=200 |language=en}}</ref>


==Peerage== == Peerage ==
In 1902 the Redesdale title was revived when he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Redesdale''', of ] in the County of Northumberland. In the ] list it was announced that Mitford would receive a barony, and the Redesdale title was revived when he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Redesdale''', of ] in the County of Northumberland, on 15 July 1902. He took the oath and his seat in the ] a week later, on 24 July.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|title=Parliament - House of Lords|date=25 July 1902|page=4|issue=36829}}</ref>


==Pre- and extra-marital fatherhood== == Pre- and extra-marital fatherhood ==
During his time in Japan he was said to have fathered two children with a ]. Later he was considered to be one of the possible fathers of ] (1885–1977), in the course of an affair with his wife's sister Blanche.<ref>Joan Hardwick; ''Clementine Churchill: The Private Life of a Public Person'' John Murray, London (1997). ISBN 0-7195-5552-3</ref> Clementine married ] in 1908. During his time in Japan, Mitford was said to have fathered two children with a ].{{Sfn|Cortazzi|2003|p=233–234}} Later, he may have fathered ] (1885–1977), in the course of an affair with his wife's sister Blanche.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hardwick |first=Joan |date=1997 |title=Clementine Churchill: The Private Life of a Public Person |location=London |publisher=] |isbn=0-7195-5552-3 }}</ref> Clementine married ] in 1908.


== Horticultural interests ==
⚫ ==H S Chamberlain==
While in the Far East, he became interested in Chinese and Japanese garden and landscape design and the flora of these countries. On his return, he created the ] as a wild garden of naturalistic planting based on his Chinese and Japanese observations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The History of Batsford |url=http://www.batsarb.co.uk/arboretum/history.asp |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=www.batsarb.co.uk}}</ref> His 1896 book, ''The Bamboo Garden,'' was the first book on the cultivation of bamboos in European temperate climates and remained the only text on the subject until the 1960s. He persuaded ] to plant ]<!--syn. Fallopia japonica --> at ] and it later became difficult to eradicate, according to ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Litchfield |first=David R. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5x0TDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT25 |title=Hitler's Valkyrie: The Uncensored Biography of Unity Mitford |publisher=The History Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780750951616 |page=25 |authorlink=<!--David R. L. Litchfield-->}}</ref>
⚫ In his closing years Lord Redesdale edited and wrote extensive and effusive introductions for two of ]'s books, ''Foundations of the Nineteenth Century'' and ''Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison with ], ], ], ], and ]'', both two volumes each, translated into English by John Lees, M.A., D.Litt., and published by John Lane at the ], London, in 1910 and 1914 respectively.


⚫ == H.S. Chamberlain ==
⚫ ==Marriage==
⚫ In his closing years, Lord Redesdale edited and wrote extensive and effusive introductions for two of ]'s books, ] and ''Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison with Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato, and Descartes'', both two volumes each, translated into English by John Lees, M.A., D.Litt., and published by John Lane at the ], London, in 1910 and 1914 respectively.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chamberlain |first=Houston Stewart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_8BhrofgP4C |title=Foundations of the nineteenth century |date=1911 |publisher=Adamant Media Corporation |isbn=978-1-4021-5459-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Chamberlain |first=Houston Stewart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BU4yAQAAMAAJ |title=Immanuel Kant: A Study and a Comparison with Goethe, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes |date=1914 |publisher=John Lane |language=en}}</ref>


⚫ == Marriage ==
Lord Redesdale married in 1874 Lady Clementina Gertrude Helen (1854-1932), the daughter of ] by his spouse Blanche, the daughter of ]. They had five sons and four daughters, of whom:
In 1874, Mitford married Lady Clementine Gertrude Helen Ogilvy (1854–1932), daughter of ], by his wife Hon. Blanche Stanley, daughter of ]. Mitford and Clementine had five sons and four daughters. ], who succeeded in the barony, married Sydney Bowles, the daughter of '']'' founder ], and was the father of the ].{{Sfn|Mosley|2003|p=3306}} Mitford's eldest son, Clement, died on 13 May 1915 in Belgium during the ] while serving with the ].<ref name="CWGC">{{CWGC|id=138541|name=Freeman-Mitford, Clement B. Ogilvy|access-date=18 November 2024}}</ref> Mitford died the following year, and the gravestone inscription for Clement was chosen by the family after the war: "AND SO HE PASSED OVER AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED ON THE OTHER SIDE".<ref name="CWGC"/>


⚫ ==See also==
* Clement, the eldest son, killed in action in 1915 in the ], whose posthumous daughter Clementine married ].
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* ], second but eldest surviving son, who was the father of the famous ].
* Frances Mitford, daughter, who later married ].
* Bertram, 3rd Lord and ancestor of the subsequent ]

⚫ == See also ==
* ], ''Mitford's Japan : Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906'', Format: Paperback, Published: January 2003, ISBN 1-903350-07-7
⚫ *].
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== Bibliography == == Bibliography ==
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*] (1871) *'']'' (1871)
*''A Tragedy in Stone; and other papers'' (1882)
*''The Bamboo Garden'' (1896) *'']'' (1896)
*''The Attaché at Peking'' (1900) *''The Attaché at Peking'' (1900)
*''The Garter Mission to Japan'' (1906) *''The Garter Mission to Japan'' (1906)
*''Memoirs'' (1915; 2 vols) *''Memories'' (1915; 2 vols)
*''Further Memories'' (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1917) *''Further Memories'' (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1917 - posthumous)


Lord Redesdale also wrote an extensive Introduction to ''Foundations of the Nineteenth Century'', and translated, with another Introduction for ''Immanuel Kant'', both by ]. Lord Redesdale also wrote an extensive Introduction to '']'' (1899), and translated, with another Introduction for ''Immanuel Kant'' (1914), both by ].
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==References== ==References==
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
*{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/info.htm |title=FAQ |publisher=}}{{Verify credibility|failed=y |date=February 2013}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See ]-->


* {{Cite book |last=Cortazzi |first=Hugh |title=Mitford's Japan: Memories and Recollections, 1866–1906 |year=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=1-903350-07-7}}
;Attribution
* {{Cite book |last=Guinness |first=Jonathan |title=The House of Mitford |publisher=Hutchinson & Co. |year=1984 |isbn=0-7538-1803-5 |location=London}}
*{{1911}}
*{{Cite book |last1=Kidd |first1=Charles |last2=Williamson |first2=David |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |publisher=St Martin's Press |year=2003}}
*Morton, Robert (2017). ''A. B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State. Letters Home''. Renaissance Books.
*{{Cite book |last=Mosley |first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |publisher=Burke's Peerage |year=2003 |isbn=0971196621 |edition=107th |volume=3}}


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British diplomat, collector, and writer (1837-1916)

The Right HonourableThe Lord RedesdaleGCVO KCB JP DL FRPS
Portrait by Samuel Lawrence, 1865
Member of Parliament
for Stratford-on-Avon
In office
4 July 1892 – 8 July 1895
Preceded byFrederick Townsend
Succeeded byVictor Milward
Personal details
BornAlgernon Bertram Mitford
(1837-02-24)24 February 1837
Mayfair, London, England
Died17 August 1916(1916-08-17) (aged 79)
Batsford, Gloucestershire, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse Lady Clementine Ogilvy ​ ​(m. 1874)​
Children9, including David
EducationEton College
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
"The Nobleman of the Garden". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1902

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, JP, DL, FRPS (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed "Bertie", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters.

Early years

Mitford was the son of Henry Reveley Mitford (1804–1883), of Exbury House, Hampshire, and great-grandson of the historian William Mitford. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Classics. While his paternal ancestors were landed gentry, whose holdings included Mitford Castle in Northumberland, his mother Lady (Georgiana) Jemima Ashburnham was the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ashburnham and Lady Charlotte Percy. After his parents separated in 1840, his father, an erstwhile attaché at Florence, resided in Germany and France; his early years were thus spent on the Continent.

Like his cousin Swinburne, he was named Algernon after his great-grandfather Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, but always went by his middle-name Bertram and was known familiarly as "Bertie" (pronounced "Barty").

Career

Diplomacy

Entering the Foreign Office in 1858, Mitford was appointed Third Secretary of the British Embassy at Saint Petersburg. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in Shanghai, he went to Japan in 1866 as second secretary to the British Legation at the time of the migration of the Japanese seat of power from Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo), known as the "Meiji Restoration". There he met Ernest Satow whom he travelled with across the hinterland of Japan. He later wrote Tales of Old Japan (1871), a book credited with making such Japanese Classics as "The Forty-seven Ronin" first known to a wide Western public. He resigned from the diplomatic service in 1873.

Following the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, in 1906 Mitford accompanied Prince Arthur on a visit to Japan to present the Emperor Meiji with the Order of the Garter. He was asked by courtiers there about Japanese ceremonies that had disappeared since 1868.

Public life

From 1874 to 1886, Mitford acted as secretary to HM Office of Works, involved in the lengthy restoration of the Tower of London and in landscaping parts of Hyde Park such as "The Dell". From 1887, he was a member of the Royal Commission on Civil Services. He also sat as Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon between 1892 and 1895.

According to W. S. Gilbert, Mitford served as a consultant on Japanese culture to Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan during the development of their 1885 Savoy Opera The Mikado. A traditional Japanese song hummed by Mitford to Gilbert and Sullivan during a rehearsal was used in the opera for the march accompanying the Mikado's entrance.

In 1886, Mitford inherited the substantial Gloucestershire estates of his cousin, John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale. In accordance with the will, he assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Freeman. Appointed a Deputy lieutenant and Justice of the peace for Gloucestershire, he became a magistrate and took up farming and horse breeding. He was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron from 1889 to 1914. Redesdale joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1907 and became a Fellow in 1908. He was President of the Royal Photographic Society between 1910 and 1912.

Mitford substantially rebuilt Batsford Park, Batsford, Gloucestershire, in the Victorian Gothic manorial style. He also installed the Batsford Arboretum.

Peerage

In the 1902 Coronation Honours list it was announced that Mitford would receive a barony, and the Redesdale title was revived when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Redesdale, of Redesdale in the County of Northumberland, on 15 July 1902. He took the oath and his seat in the House of Lords a week later, on 24 July.

Pre- and extra-marital fatherhood

During his time in Japan, Mitford was said to have fathered two children with a geisha. Later, he may have fathered Clementine Hozier (1885–1977), in the course of an affair with his wife's sister Blanche. Clementine married Winston Churchill in 1908.

Horticultural interests

While in the Far East, he became interested in Chinese and Japanese garden and landscape design and the flora of these countries. On his return, he created the arboretum at Batsford as a wild garden of naturalistic planting based on his Chinese and Japanese observations. His 1896 book, The Bamboo Garden, was the first book on the cultivation of bamboos in European temperate climates and remained the only text on the subject until the 1960s. He persuaded Edward VII to plant Japanese knotweed at Sandringham House and it later became difficult to eradicate, according to George VI.

H.S. Chamberlain

In his closing years, Lord Redesdale edited and wrote extensive and effusive introductions for two of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's books, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century and Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison with Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato, and Descartes, both two volumes each, translated into English by John Lees, M.A., D.Litt., and published by John Lane at the Bodley Head, London, in 1910 and 1914 respectively.

Marriage

In 1874, Mitford married Lady Clementine Gertrude Helen Ogilvy (1854–1932), daughter of David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie, by his wife Hon. Blanche Stanley, daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley. Mitford and Clementine had five sons and four daughters. David, who succeeded in the barony, married Sydney Bowles, the daughter of Vanity Fair founder Thomas Gibson Bowles, and was the father of the Mitford sisters. Mitford's eldest son, Clement, died on 13 May 1915 in Belgium during the Second Battle of Ypres while serving with the 10th Royal Hussars. Mitford died the following year, and the gravestone inscription for Clement was chosen by the family after the war: "AND SO HE PASSED OVER AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED ON THE OTHER SIDE".

See also

Bibliography

  • Tales of Old Japan (1871)
  • A Tragedy in Stone; and other papers (1882)
  • The Bamboo Garden (1896)
  • The Attaché at Peking (1900)
  • The Garter Mission to Japan (1906)
  • Memories (1915; 2 vols)
  • Further Memories (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1917 - posthumous)

Lord Redesdale also wrote an extensive Introduction to The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899), and translated, with another Introduction for Immanuel Kant (1914), both by Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

The standard author abbreviation Mitford is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Notes

  1. Mosley 2003, p. 3305.
  2. ^ "Statements of Services: Mitford, Algernon Bertram". The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book. Harrison. 1881. p. 149.
  3. Guinness 1984, p. 21-22.
  4. Acton, Harold (1975). Nancy Mitford: A Memoir. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 2–4. ISBN 0-06-010018-4.
  5. Guinness 1984, p. 7.
  6. Morton, Robert (2017). A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State: Letters Home. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1s17p1q. ISBN 978-1-898823-48-3. JSTOR j.ctt1s17p1q – via JSTOR. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Cortazzi 2003, p. 23.
  8. Cortazzi 2003, p. 194-195.
  9. Cortazzi 2003, p. 195.
  10. Gilbert, W. S. (2 May 1907). "The Mikado: Mr. Gilbert Explains a Famous Air". Morning Leader. p. 5. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  11. Kidd & Williamson 2003.
  12. Cortazzi 2003, p. 22–23.
  13. Obituary. The Right Hon. Lord Redesdale, The Photographic Journal, November 1916, p. 250.
  14. "Past Presidents". Royal Photographic Society. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014. Accessed 7 May 2013.
  15. Page, William (1965). The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester. A. Constable, Limited. p. 200. ISBN 9780197227961.
  16. "Parliament - House of Lords". The Times. No. 36829. London. 25 July 1902. p. 4.
  17. Cortazzi 2003, p. 233–234.
  18. Hardwick, Joan (1997). Clementine Churchill: The Private Life of a Public Person. London: John Murray. ISBN 0-7195-5552-3.
  19. "The History of Batsford". www.batsarb.co.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byFrederick Townsend Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon
1892–1895 		Succeeded byVictor Milward
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Redesdale
2nd creation
1902–1916 		Succeeded byDavid Freeman-Mitford
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