Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough

Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough
Born	30 June 1884
Died	27 August 1927
Occupation	Aristocrat
Spouse(s)	Alice Mary Eyre
Children	2 sons, 1 daughter
Parent(s)	Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough Mary Elizabeth Dease

Arthur Edward Joseph Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough OBE TD (30 June 1884 – 27 August 1927)^[1] was a British peer.

Early life

Arthur Noel was the son of Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough and his wife Mary Elizabeth Dease and a great-great-grandson of King William IV. He succeeded to the earldom on his father's death in 1926.

Career

In 1903 Viscount Campden was commissioned in the Territorial Army Reserve in the Gloucestershire Regiment^[2] and fought in France in the First World War as a major. He was decorated with the Territorial Decoration (TD) and was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919.^[3] He was Private Chamberlain to Pope Benedict XV and Pope Pius XI.^[4]

Gainsborough was a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Rutland.

Personal life and death

Gainsborough married Alice Mary Eyre on 10 November 1915. They had three children:^[5]

• Lady Maureen Thérèse Josephine Noel (born 7 March 1917, died 25 November 2009), married firstly Charles Walter James Dormer, 15th Baron Dormer and secondly Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes through whom she was the step-mother of Julian Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford.^[6]
• Anthony Gerard Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough (born 24 October 1923, died 29 December 2009)
• Hon Gerard Eyre Wriothesley Noel (born 20 November 1926, died 27 July 2016), a former editor of The Catholic Herald.^[7]

Gainsborough died on 27 August 1927, aged 43 and was succeeded in the earldom and other titles by his elder son, Anthony.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough

16. Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet of the Navy               8. Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough                       17. Diana Middleton, 2nd Baroness Barham               4. Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough                             18. Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet of Fallodon               9. Elizabeth Grey                       19. Mary Whitbread               2. Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough                                   20. William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll               10. William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll                       21. Alicia Eliot               5. Lady Ida Hay                             22. William IV of the United Kingdom               11. Elizabeth Fitzclarence                       23. Dorothea Jordan               1. Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough                                         24. James Dease               12. Gerald Dease                       25. Lady Theresa Plunkett               6. James Dease                             26. Edmund O'Callaghan               13. Elizabeth O'Callaghan                       3. Mary Dease                                   28. William Jerningham               14. Edmund Jerningham                       29. Anna Wright               7. Charlotte Jerningham                             30. Christopher Waterton               15. Matilda Waterton                       31. Anne Waddell

References

1. "PEERAGE". Retrieved July 20, 2010.
2. The London Gazette: no. 27566. p. 3855. 19 June 1903. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31377. p. 6985. 30 May 1919. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
4. Debrett's Peerage 2000
5. The Peerage, entry for 4th Earl of Gainsborough
6. The peerage, entry for Peregrine Fellowes
7. The Daily Telegraph, obituary of Gerard Noel, published 27 July 2016

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Gainsborough
• Pedigree at Genealogics