Lionel Earle

Sir Lionel Earle, GCVO KCB CMG (1 February 1866 – 10 March 1948) was a British civil servant.[1]

Early life and education

Earle was born in Marylebone, London in 1866.[2] He was the second son of Charles William Earle of the Rifle Brigade, and his wife, Maria Theresa Villiers, daughter of Edward Ernest Villiers and a horticultural writer known as Mrs C. W. Earle. He was educated at Marlborough College and studied at Göttingen University and the Sorbonne. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford in 1886, but did not take a degree.[3][4]

Career

Earle was assistant secretary the Royal Commission on the Paris Exhibition, 1898, and was appointed an acting second secretary in the diplomatic Service on 15 January 1900.[5] He transferred to Ireland in September 1902, when he was appointed an additional private secretary to Lord Dudley, the recently created Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,[6] and served as such until the following year. He was private secretary to Lord Crewe from 1907-10, and to Lord Harcourt in 1910-12. He was permanent secretary to the Office of Works from 1912 until 1933.

Earle was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1916 New Year Honours, a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1921 [7] and a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1933.[8] He was also a Commander of the Belgian Order of the Crown.[9]

Sources
  • Concise Dictionary of National Biography.

References
  1. "Obituary: Sir Lionel Earle". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 12 March 1948. p. 7.
  2. 1871 England Census
  3. Pottle, Mark. "Earle, Sir Lionel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32955. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Earle, Lionel
  5. "No. 27163". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 February 1900. p. 907.
  6. "Ireland". The Times (36875). London. 17 September 1902. p. 8.
  7. London Gazette, 1 January 1921
  8. London Gazette 30 December 1932
  9. Edinburgh Gazette, 26 October 1920.
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