Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen
Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen, KCB, KCVO, KCH, VD (German: Luitbert Alexander Georg Lionel Alfons Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen; 27 July 1843 – 20 November 1932) was a German-born nobleman who became a naturalised British subject in 1880 when he married Princess Frederica of Hanover.
Life
Pawel-Rammingen was born on 27 July 1843,[1] the eldest son of Karl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen (1807–1886) and his wife Luitgarde von Friesen (b. 1819); he had an elder sister, Anna (b. 1842) who married Oswald von Coburg in 1862, and a younger brother, Baron Paul Julius August Plato Sylvester Albert (b. 1851; known commonly as Albert).[2][3] He succeeded his father to become 2nd Baron in 1886.[3]
On 24 April 1880, Pawel-Rammingen married Princess Frederica Sophia Maria, daughter of King George V of Hanover; he had been naturalised as a British Subject by Act of Parliament on 19 March 1880 (she was also a British princess). In the same year, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and in 1897, Queen Victoria also appointed him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO). He was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Hanover (KCH).[1][3][4] In the United Kingdom, he was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment.[1] A widower since 1926, he died on 20 November 1932.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Pawel-Rammingen, Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons", Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, vol. 23 (1873), p. 486.
- ^ a b c Marquis de Ruvigny, The Nobilies of Europe (London, 1909), p. 18.
- ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, issue no. 10915, p. 849