Melville Henry Massue

Melville, Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval
Spouse(s)	Rose Amalia Gaminara
Issue Countess Rachel Melville Madelaine Margaret Moyra Frances Helen (1894–1917) Count Gabriel Henry Philip Valeran d'Ailly Southwell Maynard (1896–1914) Count Charles Rupert Wriothesley Douglas Townsend Morris, 10th Marquis of Ruvigny and 16th of Raineval (1903–1941)
Noble family	de Massue de Ruvigny
Father	Colonel C. H. T. B. de Massue de Ruvigny
Mother	Margaret Melville Moodie
Born	25 April 1868 Fulham, Middlesex, England
Died	6 October 1921 (aged 53) 46, St George's Road, Southwark, London, England

Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvignés, 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th of Raineval^[1] (25 April 1868 - 6 October 1921) was a British genealogist and author, who was twice president of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland.

Biography

Ruvigny was born in London to Colonel Charles Henry Theodore Bruce de Massue de Ruvignés, soi-disant Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, a native of Switzerland, by his marriage to Margaret Melville Moodie, a daughter of George Moodie, of Cocklaw and Dunbog in Fife, Scotland.^[2] Ruvigny's grandfather, Captain Lloyd Henry de Ruvynes,^[3] an Irishman of French origin, changed his name to "de Massue de Ruvignés", because of his descent from a daughter of Henry de Massue, 1st Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval.^[4]

On 30 August 1893 Ruvigny married Rose Amalia Gaminara, daughter of Poncrazio Gaminara of Tumaco, Colombia, by his wife, Doña Amalia Cabezas, daughter of Don Felipe Cabezas, LL.D. of the University of Quito, Ecuador.^[5]

Ruvigny was President of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1893-1894 and again in 1897. In 1898 he was made a Knight of the Order of Charles III by the Spanish Carlist claimant Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, known as "King Carlos VII".

Ruvigny was a prolific author of genealogical works, one of the leaders of the Neo-Jacobite movement, and a committed member of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1902.^[6] He died in a London nursing home and was succeeded by his second son, Charles, Comte de la Caillemotte, his first son having died unexpectedly shortly before the First World War.^[7]

Publications

• Moutray of Seafield and Roscobie, now of Favour Royal, Co. Tyrone: an Historical and Genealogical memoir of the family in Scotland, England, Ireland and America
• The Family of Hicks (London: Privately Printed, 1902)
• The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, 5 vols. (London, 1903–1911)
• The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour (Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904)
• Morris of Ballybeggan and Castle Morris (s.l.: Privately Printed, 1904)
• The Moodie Book: Being an Account of the Families of Melsetter, Muir, Cocklaw, Blairhill, Bryanton, Gilchorn, Pitmuies, Arbekie, Masterton, etc., etc. (s.l.: Privately Printed, 1906)
• The Nobilities of Europe (London: Melville and Company, 1909)
• The Legitimist Kalender for the Year of our Lord 1910 (London: The Forget-Me-Not Royalist Club, 1910)
• The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage (London: Harrison & Sons, 1914)
• The Roll of Honour: a biographical record of all members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who have fallen in the war, 2 vols. (London: The Standard Art Book Co., Ltd., 1916)

References

1. The Nobilities of Europe, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1909, pg 10
2. 1881 U.K. Census, North Stoke, Oxfordshire, England, 1295/82, p. 3.
3. A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines, p. 720
4. Ruvigny, Marquis of (1906). The Nobilities of Europe.
5. Ruvigny, Marquis of (1906). The Moodie Book.
6. Who is who. 1903.
7. The Times dated 7 October 1921, p. 9, col. C