Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh

"H.A.C."
The Earl of Denbigh as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1894

Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond GCVO TD JP DL (26 May 1859 – 25 November 1939), styled Viscount Feilding from 1865 to 1892, was the eldest son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh and Mary Berkeley, the daughter of Robert Berkeley and Henrietta Benfield.

Feilding was an artillery lieutenant at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, where he laid the horse artillery gun that hit the third railway train on the line there and prevented the further retreat of the Egyptians.

Personal life

On 24 September 1884, the then Viscount Fielding married Cecilia Mary Clifford (1860–1919), daughter of the 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh and The Hon. Agnes Louisa Catherine Petre. They had 3 sons and 7 daughters:

• Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (12 October 1885 – 10 January 1937)
• Lt-Cmdr. Hon. Hugh Cecil Robert Feilding (30 December 1886 – 31 May 1916), killed at the Battle of Jutland
• Lady Mary Alice Clara Feilding (31 March 1888 – 1973), married Sir Cecil Dormer
• Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935), married Capt. Charles O'Hara Moore and had issue
• Lady Agnes Mary Mabel Feilding (13 September 1891 – 31 August 1938), a nun
• Lady Marjorie Mary Winifrede Feilding (4 September 1892 – 1979), married first Capt. Edward Hanly in 1915 (divorced 1923), and second Capt. Robert Arthur Heath in 1923, with issue by both marriages
• Capt. Hon. Henry Simon "Peter" Feilding (29 June 1894 – 9 October 1917), killed at the Battle of Passchendaele
• Lady Clare Mary Cecilia Feilding (23 November 1896 – 1966), married G/Capt. Joseph Smyth-Pigott and had issue
• Lady Elizabeth "Bettie" Mary Feilding (22 August 1899 – ?), married Eric Sherbrooke Walker and had issue
• Lady Victoria "Taffy" Mary Dolores Feilding (29 March 1901 – ?), married Walter Miles Fletcher and had issue

The Earl was married for a second time on 12 February 1928 to Kathleen Emmet.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Denbigh

Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Ranfurly	Lord-in-Waiting 1895–1905	Succeeded by The Earl Granville
Peerage of England
Preceded by Rudolph William Basil Feilding	Earl of Denbigh 1892–1939	Succeeded by William Rudolph Stephen Feilding
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Rudolph William Basil Feilding	Earl of Desmond 1892–1939	Succeeded by William Rudolph Stephen Feilding