About Charles Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon
Lived 1916 – 1998 (aged 82). Charles Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon was a British politician.
Charles Christopher Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon (18 July 1916 – 19 November 1998) was a British soldier, landowner, and peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1937 until his death.
The second son of Frederick Leslie Courtenay, 16th Earl of Devon, and his wife Marguerite Silva, he was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. thus gaining two step-daughters. While on active service in the Second World War, Devon was wounded and mentioned in despatches, rising to the rank of Captain.
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Charles Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon was born on 13 July 1916 in Honiton.
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Charles Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon died on 19 November 1998 in Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
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