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Ririd Myddelton, MVO

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DL JP (25 February 1902 – 7 February 1988), was a country gentleman and one-time member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the

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Early life

Myddelton was born on 25 February 1902 and was named after an Myddelton ancestor. He was the eldest son of Col.

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(1866–1949) and Lady Violet Nevill (1866–1910) who married in 1898. His mother was divorced in 1897 from

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, and from that marriage, Myddelton's older half-brother was Christian Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley. From his parents marriage, he had a sister, Idina Joan Myddelton (the wife of John Charles Trueman Mills, and later, Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe), and a younger brother, Thomas Foulk Myddelton. His paternal grandparents were Richard Myddelton (son of Robert Myddelton Biddulph MP for Denbigh Boroughs and

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) and Catherine Arabella Howard (a granddaughter of chemist

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, a brother of

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). His mother was the youngest daughter of

William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny (16 September 1826 – 12 December 1915), styled Viscount Neville between 1845 and 1868 and known as The Earl of Abergavenny between 1868 and 1876, was a British peer. Background and education He was ...

. Among his maternal family were uncles,

Reginald Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny Reginald William Bransby Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny JP (4 March 1853 – 13 October 1927), styled Viscount Nevill between 1868 and 1876 and Earl of Lewes between 1876 and 1915, was a British peer. Early life Nevill was the eldest son of ...

and Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny and aunts Lady Idina Nevill (wife of

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) and Lady Rose Nevill (wife of Kenelm Pepys, 4th Earl of Cottenham). He was educated at

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and the

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Career

He was an

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in the

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1923 to 1946. In 1928-1931 Myddelton was

adjutant Adjutant is a military appointment given to an officer who assists the commanding officer with unit administration, mostly the management of human resources in an army unit. The term is used in French-speaking armed forces as a non-commission ...

of the 3rd

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of the

. In 1934-1937 he was a staff

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. He then joined the Royal Household as Deputy

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, an office he vacated in 1939 at the outbreak of

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. However, by 1944 he was back in office. In 1939 to 1940 he was Deputy Assistant

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. In 1942 he took the

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War Course, and subsequently commanded the 1st (Armoured)

1942-1944, including during the

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landings after D-Day and the advance across north west Europe. From 1952 until his death in 1988 he was an Extra

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. Myddelton was made a MVO in 1945, and was appointed a DL in 1949 and a JP in 1948, and was Vice

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1968-1974. He became a

in 1961. He was

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1951-1952.

Personal life

On 27 July 1931, Myddelton was married to Mary Margaret Elizabeth Mercer Nairne (1910–2003), who usually went by the her middle name, Margaret, a daughter of Major

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and his wife, the former Lady Violet Elliot-Murray-Kynymound (daughter of

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). Her younger brother was George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne and she was granted the rank of a marquess's daughter in 1946. After Margaret's father was killed in action at

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in 1914, her mother remarried to MP for

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John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor V, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, DL (20 May 1886 – 19 July 1971) was an American-born English newspaper proprietor, politician, sportsman, military officer, and a member of the Astor family. Biography Astor wa ...

(fourth son of

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). From her mother's second marriage, she had three half-siblings, including

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and John Astor, MP for Newbury. Together, Lady Margaret and Ririd were the parents of: * Capt. David Foulk Myddelton (1932–2021), who married Anne Ratcliffe-Brotherton, daughter of Charles Frederick Ratcliffe-Brotherton, in 1965. After their divorce in 1968, he married Christine Serena Cherry Morris, daughter of Arthur Malcolm Morris, in 1970. * Fiona Violet Myddelton, CVO (b. 1934), who married Sir Alastair Sturgis Aird, in 1963. She was Extra

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between 1960 and 2002. * Hugh Robert Myddelton (b. 1938), who married Hon. Sarah Cecily Allsopp, daughter of Maj.

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. Myddelton died on 7 February 1988. Myddelton's seat was

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, which was occupied by the family until 2004.

Descendants

Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of three: Guy Charles Myddelton (b. 1966), Sian Moyra Myddelton (b. 1971), and Mark Ririd Myddelton (b. 1973).

References

External links

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