Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth
British peer and British Army general
About Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth
Lived 1847 – 1918 (aged 71). Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth was a British aristocrat and cricketer.
Major-General Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, (24 July 1847 – 1 October 1918) was a British peer and British Army officer.
Early life Lord Falmouth was born on 24 July 1847, the eldest son of Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth, and the 13th Baroness le Despenser.
Military career Boscawen was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards: he played cricket for the Household Brigade and then for the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882 and, having been promoted to colonel in 1886, he also took part in the Nile Expedition between 1884 and 1885. He was promoted to major-general in 1898 and became Assistant Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ireland in 1900. and of Cornwall on 19 March. He retired from the army on 9 August 1902.
Boscawen succeeded to the title of 7th Viscount Falmouth on 6 November 1889. Their daughter, Kathleen Pamela Mary Corona (1902–1995), the actress known by the stage name Pamela Carme, married theatrical manager Henry Sherek.
According to Lady Randolph Churchill's sisters, he might have had a liaison with her, and might have been the biological father of John Strange Spencer-Churchill, the younger brother of Winston Churchill.
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British peer and British Army general
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Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth was born on 24 July 1847.
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Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth died on 1 October 1918.
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Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth was an aristocrat and cricketer.
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Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth was British.
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