Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne

The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Lansdowne
Born(1917-01-09)9 January 1917
Died20 August 1944(1944-08-20) (aged 27)
Italy
FatherHenry Petty-FitzMaurice
Military career
RankCaptain
UnitRoyal Wiltshire Yeomanry
WarsWorld War II

Charles Hope Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne (9 January 1917 – 20 August 1944[1]) was a British nobleman and peer. He was the son of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne.[2]

He died aged 27, in Italy, killed in action during the Second World War. Captain Charles Hope Fitzmaurice Lansdowne served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps and died on 20 August 1944. Lord Lansdowne was unmarried and childless, and his titles passed to his cousin, George Petty-Fitzmaurice, as his younger brother had also been killed in action in Normandy[2] nine days earlier.

The Scottish title Lord Nairne, however, passed to his elder sister Katherine Evelyn Constance Petty-Fitzmaurice (1912–1995), who became the 12th Baroness Nairne. She also inherited Derreen House and Gardens (Lauragh, County Kerry) from her brother.

Arms

Coat of arms of Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne
Coronet
A Coronet of a Marquess
Crest
1st, a beehive beset with bees, diversely volant, proper ; 2nd, a centaur drawing a bow and arrow, proper, the part from the waist argent.
Escutcheon
Quarterly : 1st and 4th Ermine, on a bend, azure a magnetic needle pointing at a polar star, or, (Petty); 2nd and 3rd Argent, a saltier, gules, a chief, ermine (Fitzmaurice).
Supporters
Two pegasi, ermine.; bridled, crined, winged, and unguled, or, each charged on the shoulder with a fienr-de-lis, azure.
Motto
Virtute non verbis (By courage, not words).[3]

References

  1. ^ "Captain Charles Hope Fitzmaurice Lansdowne". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "OBITUARY, FALLEN OFFICER". The Times. London. 4 January 1945.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. 1899. pp. 1190–1193.


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