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George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

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The Marquess of Milford Haven
BornPrince George Louis Victor Henry Serge of Battenberg
(1892-12-06)6 December 1892
New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Died8 April 1938(1938-04-08) (aged 45)
London, England
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1916)​
IssueLady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten
David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
ParentsPrince Louis of Battenberg
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

Captain George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, GCVO (6 December 1892 – 8 April 1938), styled Earl of Medina between 1917 and 1921, was the elder son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (Prince Louis of Battenberg) and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire. His subsidiary titles included Viscount Alderney. He died aged 45 of bone marrow cancer and was buried in Bray Cemetery, Bray, Berkshire.

Biography

His siblings were Princess Alice (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to whom he was a mentor in Philip's adolescence, a role assumed after his death by his younger brother Louis), Queen Louise of Sweden and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Marriage and issue

He married Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby (daughter of Russian Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich Romanov and his morganatic wife, Countess Sophie von Merenberg) on 15 November 1916 at the Russian Embassy, Welbeck Street, London. They lived at Lynden Manor[1] at Holyport in Berkshire and had two children:

He was an accomplished mathematician, who "could work out complicated gunnery problems in his head" and "read books on calculus casually on trains".[2]

Queen Elizabeth II said of him, "He was one of the most intelligent and brilliant of people."[3]

Legacy to British Museum

He left artefacts including a collection of pornography to the British Museum.[4][5]

Titles and styles

  • 6 December 1892 – 1917: His Serene Highness Prince George of Battenberg
  • 14 July – 7 November 1917: Sir George Mountbatten
  • 7 November 1917 – 11 September 1921: Earl of Medina
  • 11 September 1921 – 8 April 1938: The Most Honourable The Marquess of Milford Haven

Honours

Arms

Coat of arms of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
Coronet
A Coronet of an Marquess
Crest
1st: 1st: Out of a Coronet Or two Horns barry of ten Argent and Gules issuing from each three Linden Leaves Vert and from the outer side of each horn four Branches barwise having three like Leaves pendent therefrom of the last (Hesse); 2nd: Out of a Coronet Or a Plume of four Ostrich Feathers alternately Argent and Sable (Battenberg)
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure a Lion rampant double-queued barry of ten Argent and Gules armed and langued of the last crowned Or within a Bordure company of the second and third (Hesse); 2nd and 3rd, Argent two Pallets Sable (Battenberg); charged on the honour point with an Escutcheon of the arms of the late Princess Alice, namely: the Royal Arms differenced by a Label of three points Argent the centre point charged with a Rose Gules barbed Vert and each of the other points with an Ermine Spot Sable
Supporters
On either side a Lion double-queued and crowned all Or
Motto
In Honour Bound
Orders
The shield is surrounded by the Royal Victorian Order circlet, which states VICTORIA

Ancestry

Family of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
16. Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
8. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
17. Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
4. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
18. Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden
19. Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
2. Prince Louis of Battenberg
20. Friedrich Carl Emanuel Hauke
10. Count John Maurice Hauke
21. Maria Salomé Schweppenhäuser
5. Countess Julia Hauke
22. Franz Leopold Lafontaine
11. Sophie Lafontaine
23. Maria Theresia Kornély
1. George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
24. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (= 8)
12. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine
25. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden (= 9)
6. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
26. Prince William of Prussia
13. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia
27. Landgravine Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg
3. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
28. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
14. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
29. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
7. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
30. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
15. Victoria of the United Kingdom
31. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Notes

  1. ^ Lynden Manor Berkshire History
  2. ^ Hough, p.359
  3. ^ Quoted in Hough, p.360
  4. ^ http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb/23/monarchy.sallyvincent
  5. ^ http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/namedcolnprintedmat/namedcolnprintedmatmn/namedcolnprintedmatmn.html
  6. ^ a b http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/milfordhaven1917.htm, Milford Haven (1917) Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  7. ^ "No. 30116". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 5 June 1917.
  8. ^ "No. 30363". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 30 October 1917.

References

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Marquess of Milford Haven
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