John Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly

John Gaspard Le Marchant Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly (1 March 1866 – 23 June 1905) was a British hereditary peer and soldier.

Early life Romilly was born on 1 March 1866. Of Huguenot ancestry from Montpellier, he was the only child of William Romilly, 2nd Baron Romilly and, his first wife, the former Emily Idonea Sophia Le Marchant. After his mother's death two weeks after his birth in 1866, his father remarried to Helen Denison (the eldest daughter of Edward Hanson Denison of Rusholme near Manchester) on 6 November 1872.

His paternal grandparents were the former Caroline Charlotte Otter (second daughter of Rt. Rev. William Otter, Bishop of Chichester) and the English Whig politician John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly who served in Lord John Russell's first administration as Solicitor General and later as Attorney General. He was the second son of Sir Samuel Romilly, MP, and the older brother of Frederick Romilly, MP. His maternal grandparents were the former Margaret Anne Taylor (third daughter of Rev. Robert Taylor of Clifton Campville) and Lt.-Gen. Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, who served as Governor of Newfoundland, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and Governor of Malta. His grandfather was the son of Maj.-Gen. John Le Marchant and the younger brother of Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet.

Career Following his father's death in May 1891, Together, they were the parents of one son: They divorced in 1944 and he married Dora Sybil Morris, a daughter of Reginald Morris, that same year. After her death in 1960, he married Marion Elizabeth Jessie (née Clover) Cecil, a daughter of Charles M. Clover, in 1966.

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