Real memorial obituaries – Combe Down, Monkton Combe, Midford

In memoriam et celebrationem

In memorial and celebration

(4 April 1817 – 9 January 1905)

LORD DE MONTALT.

Lord de Montalt, who arrived at Holyhead on January 4 on his way to Ireland and was found too weak to continue the journey, died, early yesterday morning, at the London and North-Western Railway Company's Hotel, In the presence of his daughter, Lady Florenco Maude.

Sir Cornwallls Mande, first Earl de Montalt, of Dundrum, county Tipperary, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, fourth Viscount Howarden, of Hawarden, County Tipperary, and Baron de Montalt, in the peerage of Ireland, and a baronet of Ireland, was born on April 4, 1817.

He was the son of the third Viscount Hawarden, by Jane, youngest daughter of Mr. Patrick Crawford Bruce, of Teplow Lodge, Bucks, and his only surviving sister is Florence Lady Braybrooke.

His eldest sister married Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Tottenham, and his second sister married, first, the second Earl of Yarborough, and, secondly, the first Viscount Oxenbridge.

Lord de Montalt was educated at Eton, and, entering the 2nd Life Guards, obtained his company in due course.

In October, 1856, he succeeded his father in the Viscounty of Hawarden and the other Irish honours. When Lord Derby took office in 1866 he selected Lord Hawarden to be a lord of waiting, and Lord Hawarden held the same office throughout the Disraeli Government of 1874 to 1880, as also in Lord Salisbury's short Goverment of 1885 to 1886.

He had been elected a representative peer for Iraland in 1862, in 1885 he was appointed hor Majesty's lieutenant for county Tipperary, and in 1886 he was advanced to the earldom.

Burke traces Maudes (or Monhaults, or Montalts), a great baronial family to whom belonged Hawardan Castle.