Sir Anthony Weldon, 6th Baronet

Colonel Sir Anthony Arthur Weldon, 6th Baronet (1 March 1863 – 29 June 1917) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and official in the vice-regal household in the Dublin Castle administration in Ireland.

Biography Weldon was the eldest son of Sir Anthony Weldon, 5th Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Weldon (née Kennedy). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1884. The following year he was commissioned into the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians). He was promoted to lieutenant on 28 February 1885. Weldon was aide-de-camp to Lord Wolseley and he served in the Second Boer War, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1900. The same year he succeeded to his father's baronetcy and estates. In 1906, he served a term as High Sheriff of Queen's County.

In 1908, Weldon was appointed State Steward and Chamberlain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with responsibility for managing the vice-regal household and ceremonial matters in Ireland. He was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1911. Between 2 December 1913 and his death he also served as Lord Lieutenant of Kildare. He was buried in a Commonwealth War Graves Commission plot in the Church of Ireland cemetery of St John's in Athy.