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Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
1797 - 1861 (64 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
Generation: 3
1. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was born on 23 Mar 1797 in Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth, Devon; died on 3 Sep 1861 in Erith, Kent. Notes:
Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (23 March 1797 – 3 September 1861), styled Viscount Valletort between 1818 and 1837, was a British peer and politician.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Edgcumbe,_3rd_Earl_of_Mount_Edgcumbe
Died:
On board his yacht off Erith, Kent, England - reg. Dartford, KentErnest married Caroline Augusta Feilding on 6 Dec 1831 in Laycock, Wiltshire,. Caroline was born on 22 Jan 1808 in Weymouth, Dorset; died on 2 Nov 1881 in Saltram, Devonshire; was buried on 8 Nov 1881 in Neker, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
was born on 5 Jul 1832 in Edgcumbe, Cornwall; died on 25 Sep 1917. - 3. Lt Col Hon Charles Ernest Edgcumbe was born on 23 Oct 1838 in Edgcumbe, Cornwall; died on 14 Sep 1915; was buried on 14 Sep 1915.
- 2. William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
Generation: 2
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William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1.Ernest1) was born on 5 Jul 1832 in Edgcumbe, Cornwall; died on 25 Sep 1917. Notes:
William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, GCVO, PC, DL (5 November 1833 – 25 September 1917), styled Viscount Valletort between 1839 and 1861, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edgcumbe,_4th_Earl_of_Mount_EdgcumbeWilliam married Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton in 1857 in Portugal. Catherine was born on 9 Jan 1840 in Strabane, Tyrone, Ireland; died on 3 Sep 1874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 4. Piers Alexander Hamilton Edgcumbe, 5th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was born on 2 Jul 1865 in Mt. Edgcumbe, Cornwall; died on 18 Apr 1944 in St Germans, Cornwall.
- 4. Piers Alexander Hamilton Edgcumbe, 5th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
Generation: 3
4. 
Piers Alexander Hamilton Edgcumbe, 5th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (2.William2, 1.Ernest1) was born on 2 Jul 1865 in Mt. Edgcumbe, Cornwall; died on 18 Apr 1944 in St Germans, Cornwall. Notes:
Piers Alexander Hamilton Edgcumbe, 5th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe DL (1865-1944), was a soldier who served in the South African War with distinction.
He was the son of William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe by his first wife.
Educated at Oxford University and a keen horseman, he was part of the varsity polo team playing against Cambridge in 1885-1887.[2]
He was appointed a Captain in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on 23 March 1891. After the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, he went to serve in South Africa. He left Cape Town for the United Kingdom in early May 1902, shortly before the end of the war.[3]
He succeeded his father to the earldom and Mount Edgcumbe House in 1917. He had married in 1911 Lady Edith Villiers, the only daughter of Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon. They had no children and he was succeeded by his cousin, Kenelm William Edward Edgcumbe, 6th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Edgcumbe,_5th_Earl_of_Mount_EdgcumbePiers married Edith Hyde Villiers on 15 May 1911 in London. Edith was born on 8 Nov 1878 in 11 Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London; died on 1 Aug 1935 in Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]