Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle

Arnold Allan Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle, (1 June 1858 – 12 April 1942), styled Viscount Bury from 1891 to 1894, was a British military officer, courtier and Conservative politician.

Life and political career Lord Albemarle was the eldest son of William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, and his beloved wife Sophia Mary, daughter of Sir Allan Napier McNab, 1st Baronet, a Canadian politician, and was one of the educated at Eton College. In 1892 he was returned to Parliament for Birkenhead, a seat he held until 1894 when he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. Lord Albemarle served in the Conservative administrations of Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) between 1922 and 1924.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (FZS) in July 1902.

Military career He was commissioned as a Sub-lieutenant in the part-time Dorset Militia in 1877 and the following year transferred to the Scots Guards as a Second lieutenant. He resigned his commission in 1883. In 1892 he took over his father's position as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 12th Middlesex (Civil Service) Rifle Volunteer Corps, retaining the command until 1901. and served as such until the corps was disbanded. He was mentioned in despatches, received the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps, and was in 1900 appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his services in South Africa. He received the honorary rank of Lt-Col in the Army. advanced to a Knight Commander (KCVO) of the same Order in 1909, and promoted to the Grand Cross (GCVO) of the order in 1931. Statue Drums of the Fore and Aft at Woodbridge, Suffolk, attributed to the Earl. He is credited with sculpting the statue of the two drummer boys from Rudyard Kipling's story The Drums of the Fore and Aft that now stands in Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Family Lord Albemarle married Lady Gertrude Lucia Egerton (1861–1943), daughter of Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton, in 1881. They had four sons and one daughter: other_versions =