George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

The Marquess of Milford Haven
Born	Prince George Louis Victor Henry Serge of Battenberg 6 December 1892 Darmstadt, Germany
Died	8 April 1938 (aged 45) London, England
Spouse(s)	Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby (m. 1916; his death 1938)
Issue	Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
Parents	Prince Louis of Battenberg Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

Captain George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, GCVO (6 December 1892 – 8 April 1938), styled Earl of Medina between 1917 and 1921, was the elder son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (Prince Louis of Battenberg) and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. His subsidiary titles included Viscount Alderney. He died aged 45 of bone marrow cancer and was buried in Bray Cemetery, Bray, Berkshire.

Biography

His siblings were Princess Alice (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to whom he was a mentor in Philip's adolescence, a role assumed after his death by his younger brother Louis), Queen Louise of Sweden and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Marriage and issue

He married Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby (daughter of Russian Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich Romanov and his morganatic wife, Countess Sophie von Merenberg) on 15 November 1916 in London. They lived at Lynden Manor^[1] at Holyport in Berkshire and had two children:

• Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten (Edinburgh, 16 December 1917 – Northampton, 15 May 1988)
• David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (12 May 1919 – 14 April 1970).

He was an accomplished mathematician, who "could work out complicated gunnery problems in his head" and "read books on calculus casually on trains".^[2]

Queen Elizabeth II said of him, "He was one of the most intelligent and brilliant of people."^[3]

Legacy to British Museum

He left artefacts including a collection of pornography to the British Museum. ^[4][5]

Titles and styles

• 6 December 1892 – 1917: His Serene Highness Prince George of Battenberg
• 14 July – 7 November 1917: Sir George Mountbatten
• 7 November 1917 – 11 September 1921: Earl of Medina
• 11 September 1921 – 8 April 1938: The Most Honourable The Marquess of Milford Haven

Honours

• Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 1916^[6]
• Order of St Vladimir, 4th class, with Swords, authorised to wear 5 June 1917^[7]
• Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, Grand Cordon, 1917.^[8]
• Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 1932^[6]

Arms

Arms of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

Coronet A Coronet of an Marquess Crest 1st: 1st: Out of a Coronet Or two Horns barry of ten Argent and Gules issuing from each three Linden Leaves Vert and from the outer side of each horn four Branches barwise having three like Leaves pendent therefrom of the last (Hesse); 2nd: Out of a Coronet Or a Plume of four Ostrich Feathers alternately Argent and Sable (Battenberg) Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure a Lion rampant double-queued barry of ten Argent and Gules armed and langued of the last crowned Or within a Bordure company of the second and third (Hesse); 2nd and 3rd, Argent two Pallets Sable (Battenberg); charged on the honour point with an Escutcheon of the arms of the late Princess Alice, namely: the Royal Arms differenced by a Label of three points Argent the centre point charged with a Rose Gules barbed Vert and each of the other points with an Ermine Spot Sable Supporters On either side a Lion double-queued and crowned all Or Motto In Honour Bound Orders The shield is surrounded by the Royal Victorian Order circlet, which states VICTORIA

Ancestry

Ancestors of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

16. Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine               8. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine                       17. Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt               4. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine                             18. Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden               9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden                       19. Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt               2. Prince Louis of Battenberg                                   20. Friedrich Carl Emanuel Hauke               10. Count John Maurice Hauke                       21. Maria Salomé Schweppenhäuser               5. Countess Julia Hauke                             22. Franz Leopold Lafontaine               11. Sophie Lafontaine                       23. Maria Theresia Kornély               1. George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven                                         24. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (= 8)               12. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine                       25. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden (= 9)               6. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine                             26. Prince William of Prussia               13. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia                       27. Landgravine Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg               3. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine                                   28. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha               14. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha                       29. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg               7. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom                             30. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn               15. Victoria of the United Kingdom                       31. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Notes

1. Lynden Manor Berkshire History
2. Hough, p.359
3. Quoted in Hough, p.360
4. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb/23/monarchy.sallyvincent
5. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/namedcolnprintedmat/namedcolnprintedmatmn/namedcolnprintedmatmn.html
6. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/milfordhaven1917.htm, Milford Haven (1917) Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
7. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30116. p. 5591. 5 June 1917.
8. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30363. p. 11322. 30 October 1917. Retrieved 1 February 2008.

References

• Hough, Richard (1984). Louis and Victoria: The Family History of the Mountbattens. Second edition. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-78470-6.