CHARLES E STEWARD 1895 PC

He was promoted to the temporary rank of major in his old regiment on 1 November, and to the substantive rank on the 7th. In the following months of 1914, Castlereagh extensively witnessed the destruction of war and the terrible suffering of the British wounded. Although a staff officer, Castlereagh immediately saw plenty of fighting and believed he had shot and killed one of the enemy on 2 September 1914. His relatively unsuccessful career on the depleted Unionist backbenches was broken by a return to the British Army during the First World War.Īs Captain Castlereagh MP he travelled to northern France in the first weeks of the war and reached Paris on 29 August 1914, having been gazetted ADC to General William Pulteney the previous day. He retained his army commission, but was placed on the half-pay list from January 1910. Ĭastlereagh was subsequently pressed by his parents to stand for election to the House of Commons at the 1906 general election for Maidstone. He resigned his position of adjutant in the Royal Horse Guards on 24 March 1904, and was promoted to captain on 6 April. In August 1903, following the King's visit to Ireland, he was appointed a Member Fourth Class (present-day Lieutenant) of the Royal Victorian Order, his father being honoured with the Knight Grand Cross of the Order at the same time.

In early 1901 he was appointed by King Edward VII to take part in a special diplomatic mission to announce the King's accession to the governments of Austria-Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. He was promoted lieutenant on 30 August 1899, and appointed adjutant on. After passing out from Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards as a second lieutenant on 8 September 1897. On, Lord Castlereagh was appointed a second lieutenant in the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps, a corps within the Volunteer Force attached to the Royal Garrison Artillery (Western Division) and at the time commanded by his father who owned Seaham Colliery from which many of the part-time gunners were recruited. His father's family were of partial East Donegal Ulster-Scots descent. The eldest son of The 6th Marquess of Londonderry and Lady Theresa Susey Helen, daughter of The 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, he was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Background and education His mother, Theresa ('Nellie'), Marchioness of Londonderry, John Singer Sargent, 1912 badly astray over the issue of German air strength in 1934–5. The Staff College at Cranwell was opened in the last months of his time as air minister. It was under his tutelage that radar was developed for use by the RAF. He encouraged the planning of vital new fighter aircraft such as the Hurricane and Spitfire. He preserved the core of the RAF at a time when even this was under threat from the Treasury. His main record at the Air Ministry included: In 1935 he was removed from the Air Ministry but retained in the Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. He is best remembered for his tenure as Secretary of State for Air in the 1930s and for his attempts to reach an understanding with Nazi Germany.

CHARLES E STEWARD 1895 PC

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AirĬharles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, KG, MVO, PC, PC (Ire) ( – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 18, was a British peer and politician. Minister of Education for Northern Ireland

Charles e steward 1895