Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt

Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt (4 April 1817 – 9 January 1905), styled The Honourable Cornwallis Maude until 1856 and known as The Viscount Hawarden from 1856 to 1886, was a British Conservative politician.

The Right Honourable
The Earl de Montalt
Maude as caricatured in Vanity Fair, November 1881
Born
Cornwallis Maude

(1817-04-04)4 April 1817
London, England
Died9 January 1905(1905-01-09) (aged 87)
NationalityBritish
OccupationPolitician
TitleEarl de Montalt
Viscount Hawarden
Spouse(s)
(m. 1845)
Children8
Parent(s)Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden
Jane Crauford Bruce

Background

Maude was the only son of Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden, and his wife Jane (née Bruce).

Political career

Maude succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1856 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. However, in 1862 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer, and later served in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby, Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868, 1874 to 1880 and 1885 to 1886. The latter year he was created Earl de Montalt, of Dundrum in the County of Tipperary, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Between 1885 and 1905 he also held the honorary post of Lord-Lieutenant of County Tipperary.

Family

Lord de Montalt married Clementina, eldest daughter of Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, in 1845. She died in 1865. One of their sons, the Honourable Cornwallis Maude, a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, was killed in action at the Battle of Majuba Hill in 1881. Lord de Montalt died on 9 January 1905, aged 87, at a hotel at Holyhead, Anglesey. While waiting for a boat to Ireland he became too ill to travel and died. As he had no other surviving sons the earldom became extinct on his death. He was succeeded in his other titles by his cousin Robert Henry Maude.

References

    • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
    • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
    • Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.
    Honorary titles
    Preceded by
    The Viscount Lismore
    Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary
    1885–1905
    Succeeded by
    The Lord Dunalley
    Peerage of the United Kingdom
    New creation Earl de Montalt
    1886–1905
    Extinct
    Peerage of Ireland
    Preceded by
    Cornwallis Maude
    Viscount Hawarden
    1856–1905
    Succeeded by
    Robert Maude
    Political offices
    Preceded by
    The Viscount Dungannon
    Representative peer for Ireland
    1862–1905
    Succeeded by
    The Earl of Darnley
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