MOUNT EDGCUMBE

Ernest August us Edgcumbe , 3 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Richmond Hill, Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30 March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P. Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; m. 3 Dec. 1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was b. Jany. 1808 and d. Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill 1855. d. in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept. 1861. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria (1845) 37–45 portrait of the Counte .