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Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Sudeley
PC FRS
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
In office
10 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded byThe Earl of Coventry
Succeeded byThe Viscount Barrington
Personal details
Born3 July 1840
Died9 December 1922 (1922-12-10) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
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(m. 1868)​
Parents

Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley PC FRS (3 July 1840 – 9 December 1922), styled The Honourable Charles Hanbury-Tracy from 1858 to 1877, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under William Ewart Gladstone in 1886.

Background

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Sudeley was a younger son of Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, and his wife Emma Eliza Alicia Dawkins-Pennant, daughter of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant, of Penrhyn Castle.

Political career

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Sudeley entered the House of Commons for Montgomery in 1863, a seat he held until 1877 when he succeeded in the barony on the death of his elder brother.[1] He served under William Ewart Gladstone as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1880[2] to 1885[3] and as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from February[4] to July 1886.[5] The latter year Sudeley was also sworn of the Privy Council.[6] Apart from his political career he was a Fellow of the Royal Society.[7] He later came into financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1893. This caused the sale of the family seat of Toddington Manor.[8]

Family

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Lord Sudeley married the writer Ada Maria Katherine Tollemache, daughter of the Honourable Frederick James Tollemache, in 1868. He died in December 1922, aged 82, at Reston Lodge, Petersham and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William.[9]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley
Crest
"1st, on a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an escallop sable, between two wings or; 2nd, out of a mural coronet sable, a demi-lion rampant or, holding in the paws a battle-axe sable, helved gold."
Escutcheon
"Quarterly: 1st and 4th or, an escallop in the chief point sable, between two bendlets gules" (Tracy); "2nd and 3rd or, a bend engrailed vert plain cotised sable" (Hanbury).
Supporters
"On either side a falcon, wings elevated proper, beaked and belled or."
Motto
Memoria Pii Æterna "The pious are held in everlasting remembrance"
Badge
"A fire beacon, and in front thereof and chained thereto a panther ducally gorged, the tail nowed."[10]

References

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  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
  2. ^ "No. 24843". The London Gazette. 11 May 1880. p. 2968.
  3. ^ "No. 25488". The London Gazette. 7 July 1885. p. 3117.
  4. ^ "No. 25558". The London Gazette. 12 February 1886. p. 683.
  5. ^ "No. 25615". The London Gazette. 10 August 1886. p. 3853.
  6. ^ "No. 25558". The London Gazette. 12 February 1886. p. 677.
  7. ^ royalsociety.org List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007
  8. ^ Biography of Lord Sudeley by his great-grandson Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley Archived 22 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Lord Sudeley". The Times. 11 December 1922. p. 14. Retrieved 21 January 2024 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  10. ^ Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003. London: Macmillan. 2003. p. 1539.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Montgomery
1863–1877 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
1886 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Sudeley
1877–1922 		Succeeded by
William Charles Frederick Hanbury-Tracy
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