Nigel Kingscote

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Biography

Kingscote was the son of Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote, of Kingscote Park, Gloucestershire, by his first wife, Lady Isabella Anne Frances Somerset, a daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. His mother died when he was less than one year old, shortly after the birth of her second child, a daughter. His brother, Thomas Kingscote, also joined the Royal Household.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Military career

Kingscote was commissioned in to the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1846.[2] He was Aide-de-Camp to his great-uncle, Lord Raglan, during the Crimean War, and later achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Scots Fusiliers.[3] He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia (later 4th (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment) on 28 January 1862 and retained the position until the unit's disbandment in 1908.[4][5][6][7]

Political career

Kingscote was Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West between 1852 and 1885.[8] He was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1856.[9] The latter year he was appointed a Commissioner of Woods and Forests,[10] a post he held until 1895. He was also a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and a Trustee of the manor of Horsley.[11]

Court positions

Kingscote was a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria between 1859 and 1866, when he resigned,[12] and as an Extra Equerry to the Prince of Wales in 1867. He served as Superintendent of the Prince of Wales's stables until 1885,[13] was appointed to the Council of the Prince of Wales in 1886,[14] and as Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall in 1888,[15] Extra Equerry to Edward VII between 1901 and 1902 and Paymaster-General of the Royal Household between 1901[16] and 1908.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1855, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1889. After the accession of King Edward VII, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1902 Birthday Honours,[17] and was invested with the insignia by the King at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.[18]

Agriculture

Kingscote was also involved in agricultural affairs and served as President of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1878.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Family

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Lady Emily Marie Kingscote (née Curzon); Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge Kingscote, 1860, by Camille Silvy

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He married firstly the Hon Caroline Sophia Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, in 1851. She died in childbirth on 19 March 1852 at Drove, Westhampnett in West Sussex: her newborn son died on the same day.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Kingscote married secondly Lady Emily Marie Curzon, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, in 1856. Lady Emily was a fellow courtier, serving as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra. They had two sons and two daughters:[19][20]

Death

Kingscote died in September 1908, aged 78. Lady Kingscote died in December 1910.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

References

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  5. ↑ See his Crimean Journal – Gloucestershire Archives, record D471, catalogue NRA 4496 Kingscote. Also correspondence and diaries of his brother whilst in the Crimean held at National Army Museum, record 7311/170, catalogue NRA 20803 Kingscote. Also Correspondence with Lord Raglan held at Gwent Record Office NRA 28994.
  6. ↑ Army List, various dates.
  7. ↑ Maj Wilfred Joseph Cripps (revised by Capt Hon M.H. Hicks-Beach & Maj B.N. Spraggett), The Royal North Gloucester Militia, 2nd Edn, Cirencester: Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard Printing Works, 1914, Appendix A.
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  20. ↑ Pine, L. G.. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 17th edition. London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952

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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West
1852–1885
With: Robert Blagden Hale 1852–1857
Sir John Rolt 1857–1867
Edward Arthur Somerset 1867–1868
Samuel Marling 1867–1874
Hon. Randal Plunkett 1874–1880
Lord Moreton 1880–1885 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Commissioner of Woods and Forests
1885–1895
With: George Culley 1885–1893
Stafford Howard 1893–1895 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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