Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden

The Right Honourable
The Lord Howard de Walden
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
26 May 1824  9 June 1828
Monarch George IV
Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool
George Canning
The Viscount Goderich
Preceded by Lord Francis Conyngham
Succeeded by Lord Dunglass
Personal details
Born 5 June 1799
Died 29 August 1868 (1868-08-30) (aged 69)
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 18131899)

Charles Augustus Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden and 2nd Baron Seaford (5 June 1799 29 August 1868), was a British diplomat and politician.

Lineage

Ellis was the son of Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford and his wife, the Honourable Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of John Hervey, Lord Hervey, eldest son of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, the "Earl-Bishop" of Derry. Educated at Eton College, He succeeded his great-grandfather Lord Bristol in the barony of Howard de Walden on 8 July 1803, aged four.

Political and diplomatic career

Lord Howard de Walden became an Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 24 April 1817.[1] He served as Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 26 May 1824 to 9 June 1828, during which time he acted as Attaché to Lord Stuart de Rothesay on a mission to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (January 1826). This role allowed him to move into international diplomacy, as he served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Stockholm, Sweden, from 2 October 1832, to the court of Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 November 1833, and at Brussels, Belgium, from 10 December 1846. Lord Howard de Walden was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 22 July 1838 and a Grand Cross of the Portuguese order of the Tower and Sword in 1841. He succeeded in the barony of Seaford on the death of his father in July 1845.

Family

Lord Howard de Walden married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 1813 29 July 1899), daughter of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, at All Souls' Church in Marylebone on 8 November 1828. They had seven sons:[2]

Lord Howard de Walden died in August 1868 at Belgium, aged 69, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Frederick George Ellis, 7th Baron Howard de Walden. Lady Lucy Joan Howard de Walden died in July 1899 in St. James House, West Malvern, Worcestershire .

References

  1. The London Gazette: no. 17248. p. 1087. 6 May 1817.
  2. http://thepeerage.com/p3749.htm
  3. F. Bartoccini, «CAETANI, Michelangelo». In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. XVI (Caccianiga-Caluso), Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1973 (on-line (Italian))

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Political offices
Preceded by
Lord Francis Conyngham
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
with Lord Francis Conyngham 18241826
and The Marquess of Clanricarde 18261827

18241828
Succeeded by
Lord Dunglass
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
The Lord Bloomfield
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden
18321833
Succeeded by
Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe
Preceded by
Hon. Sir Frederick Lamb
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal
18331846
Succeeded by
George Hamilton Seymour
Preceded by
Thomas Wathen Waller
(Chargé d'Affaires)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium
18461868
Succeeded by
John Savile, 1st Baron Savile (second creation)
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Frederick Augustus Hervey
Baron Howard de Walden
18031868
Succeeded by
Frederick George Ellis
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Charles Rose Ellis
Baron Seaford
18451868
Succeeded by
Frederick George Ellis
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