Colonel Ulric Oliver Thynne CMG, DSO, CVO (6 July 1871 – 30 September 1957)Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, pp. 213–214.''Record for Colonel Ulric Oliver Thynne'' on ''thepeerage.com''
/ref> was a distinguished British soldier and champion polo player.

Early life

Thynne was born on 6 July 1871. He was the son of Rt. Hon.

Lord Henry Frederick Thynne Lord Henry "Harry" Frederick Thynne Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Deputy Lieutenant, DL (2 August 1832 – 28 January 1904) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Treas ...

and Lady Ulrica Frederica Jane St. Maur Seymour. He was educated at

Charterhouse School Charterhouse is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charter ...

, Godalming, Surrey, England and at the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC) was a United Kingdom, British military academy for training infantry and cavalry Officer (armed forces), officers of the British Army, British and British Indian Army, Indian Armies. It was founded in 1801 at Gre ...

, Berkshire, England.

Career

Thynne gained the rank of lieutenant in the service of the

King's Royal Rifle Corps The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United Sta ...

, and fought in the Chitral Campaign in 1895. He was appointed a lieutenant in the

Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom established in 1794. It was disbanded as an independent Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial Army unit in 1967, a time when t ...

on 10 February 1900, and fought with the Imperial Yeomanry during the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War (, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and ...

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, where he was

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, and for which he was appointed a Companion of the

Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a Military awards and decorations, military award of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, awarded for operational gallantry for highly successful ...

(DSO) in November 1900. Following the war, he was promoted to

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on 31 May 1902. He fought in the

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, during which he was again mentioned in despatches and decorated with the award of Territorial Decoration (T.D.). He was invested as a Companion,

Order of St. Michael and St. George The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George I ...

(C.M.G.) in 1918. He was colonel commanding the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. and became its honorary colonel in 1938. He was invested as a Commander, Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) in 1946. A keen

polo Polo is a stick and ball game that is played on horseback as a traditional field sport. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports, having been adopted in the Western world from the game of Chovgan (), which originated in ancient ...

player, in 1903 he won the

Roehampton Trophy The Roehampton trophy is the oldest polo trophy in the United Kingdom. The trophy was first played for at the Roehampton Club in 1902 and was won by Buccaneers. Today it is played for at the Ham Polo Club, the tournament is played for at an 6-goal ...

Peerage claim

In 1924, Thynne claimed the ancient Barony of Beauchamp from the House of Lords; the

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rejected the claim, holding that the evidence was insufficient to prove that the peerage was in fact created.

Family

He married, firstly, Marjory Wormald, daughter of Edward Wormald, on 16 May 1899. The children of Colonel Ulric Oliver Thynne and Marjory Wormald are: * Lt.-Col. Oliver St. Maur Thynne (24 October 1901 – 1 May 1978), who married Mary Wroughton Morris and had issue. * Edward Wormald Thynne (17 Mar 1905 – 8 Oct 1925) * G/Capt. Brian Sheridan Thynne (29 Nov 1907 – 1985), who married, firstly, Naomi Waters, married, secondly, Fernanda Herrero de Aledo, and had issue from both marriages. * Ulrica Marjory Thynne (5 May 1911 – 22 Jan 1999) He married, secondly, Elspeth Stiven Tullis, daughter of David Tullis, on 19 December 1951. He died on 30 September 1957 at age 86.

References

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