Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh

Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond, (26 May 1859 – 25 November 1939), styled Viscount Feilding from 1865 to 1892, was a British Army officer and peer.

Biography Lord Feilding was born at Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, the eldest son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh and Mary (née Berkeley). He succeeded his father as Earl of Denbigh in 1892. He was later awarded the Order of the Nile, 3rd Class by Sultan Hussein Kamel. He held the office of Conservative Parliamentary Lord-in-waiting between 1897 and 1905.

In March 1902, Lord Denbigh was head of a mission sent by the British government to congratulate Pope Leo XIII upon entering on the 25th year of his Pontificate. He was aide-de-camp to George V from 1911 to 1926.

Personal life On 24 September 1884, the then Viscount Fielding married Hon. Cecilia Mary Clifford (1860–1919), daughter of Charles Hugh Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh and the Hon. Agnes Louisa Catherine (née Petre). They had three sons and seven daughters:

Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (12 October 1885 – 10 January 1937), whose son, the 10th Earl of Denbigh, succeeded. Lady Marjorie Mary Winifrede Feilding (4 September 1892 – 1956), married firstly Capt. Edward Hanly, of Avonmore House, County Wicklow, officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, in 1915 (divorced 1923),

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Foreign honours

The latter honour entitled Lord Denbigh to be addressed as The Most Excellent.