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Algernon Edwyn Burnaby (9 April 1868 – 13 November 1938) of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, was an English landowner, soldier, and Justice of the Peace, and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. He was Master of the Quorn Hunt.
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Algernon Edwyn Burnaby (9 April 1868 – 13 November 1938) of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, was an English landowner, soldier, and Justice of the Peace, and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. He was Master of the Quorn Hunt.
A descendant of Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), who had married the heiress of the Edwyn family of Baggrave,[1] Burnaby was born in the parish of St George Hanover Square, Westminster,[2] the son of Major-General Edwyn Sherard Burnaby, who went on to become a member of parliament, and of his wife Louisa Julia Mary Dixie, daughter of Sir Willoughby Wols...
After Eton, Burnaby was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and later served as a captain in the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry and as a Major in the Territorial Force Reserve.[1]
In 1890, Burnaby and his friend Count Elliott Zborowski together planned the Quorn Hunt's Midnight Steeplechase, a National Hunt race in the middle of the night over twelve furlongs, with the riders dressed in night shirts and top hats and the fences lit by oil lamps. Burnaby was the triumphant winner, gaining a silver cup provided by Zborowski. The race is commemorated in sporting prints.[5]
On 13 April 1896, Burnaby married Sybil Cholmondeley, only daughter of Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere and Augusta Emily Seymour, herself a daughter of Sir George Hamilton Seymour. They were divorced in 1902, having had one son, Hugh Edwyn Burnaby,[3] born at Westminster in 1897.[6] On 18 July 1908, at York Harbor, Maine, Burnaby married secondly Minna Field, a daughter of a rich American, Henry Field, of Chicago, and a niece of Marshall Field. He thus gained a young step-son, Henry Field.[7][8] Sybil Burnaby died on 26 May 1911, aged 39, two weeks after falling out of a window at home in Wilton Place and suffering severe injuries. At an inquest, the coroner found that the fall was purely accidental.[9]
Burnaby's aunt Louisa Burnaby (1832–1918) married Charles Cavendish-Bentinck and was the mother of Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.[10]
Burnaby was Master of the Quorn Hunt from 1912 to 1932. A Great Depression began in 1929, and subscriptions to the hunt began to fall. Burnaby then recruited Sir Harold Nutting, "newly rich from bottling Guinness", as joint Master, and quipped "We don't want your personality, we want your purse!" Jane Ridley has estimated that during the following ten years Nutting spent about £15,000 a year on the Quorn,[11] equivalent to £846,967 in 2024.
Burnaby died on 13 November 1938.[12] His son and heir, Hugh Edwyn Burnaby, sold the Baggrave Hall estate in 1939 and settled in Oxfordshire.[13] His step-mother, Burnaby's second wife, settled in Coconut Grove, Florida, and died there in May 1952.[14]
•Family papers etc. relating to Burnaby family of Baggrave Hall, Leicester at the National Archives
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2 de mai. de 2008 · Algernon Burnaby by Nicolas Becker, 1928 2 Algernon Edwyn Burnaby was born in 1868 at London, England . 3 He was the son of Maj.-Gen. Edwyn Sherard Burnaby and Louisa Julia Mary Dixie . 1 , 3 He married Hon. Sybil Cholmondeley , daughter of Hugh Cholmondeley , 2nd Baron Delamere of Vale Royal and Augusta Emily Seymour , on 13 April 1896. 1 He and Hon. Sybil Cholmondeley were divorced in 1902 ...
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Algernon Burnaby won the Midnight Steeplechase in 1890. John Gibson (1790-1866) was born in Wales, before the family moved to Liverpool, he later studied in Italy. Gibson was a highly regarded artist and left the contents of his studio to the Royal Academy on his death in 1866.
Major Algernon Edwyn Burnaby, a friend of the Duke of Windsor when the Duke was Prince of Wales, died today at the age of 70. He was a veteran of the World War and had served with the London ...
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