Cornwallis Maude, 1st and last Earl de Montalt of Dundrum

Born on 4 April 1817. He was the son of Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden and Jane Crauford Bruce. He married Clementina Elphinstone-Fleming, daughter of Admiral Hon. Charles Elphinstone-Fleming and Donna Catalina Paulina Alessandro, on 24 March 1845.

• He died on 9 January 1905 at age 87, without surviving male issue.
• He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England
• He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 2nd Life Guards.
• He succeeded to the title of 4th Viscount Hawarden, of Hawarden, co. Tipperary [I., 1793] on 12 October 1856.
• He succeeded to the title of 4th Baron de Montalt of Hawarden, co. Tipperary [I., 1785] on 12 October 1856.
• He succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Maude [I., 1705] on 12 October 1856.
• He held the office of Representative Peer [Ireland] in 1862.
• He held the office of Lord in Waiting between 1866 and 1868.
• He held the office of Lord in Waiting between 1874 and 1880.
• He held the office of Lieutenant and custos rotulorum for County Tipperary between 1881 and 1905.
• He held the office of Deputy Speaker, House of Lords in 1882
• He held the office of Lord in Waiting in 1885.
• He was created 1st Earl de Montalt of Dundrum, co. Tipperary [U.K.] on 9 September 1886
• He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Dunbartonshire
• He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant in the service of the North Tipperary Militia.
• He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Dunbartonshire

On his death, the Earldom of De Montalt became extinct.

Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt

Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt (4 April 1817 – 9 January 1905), styled The Honourable Cornwallis Maude until 1856 and known as The Viscount Hawarden from 1856 to 1886, was a British Conservative politician.

Maude was the only son of Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden, and his wife Jane (née Bruce).

Lord de Montalt married Clementina, eldest daughter of Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, in 1845. She died in 1865. One of their sons, the Honourable Cornwallis Maude, a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, was killed in action at the Battle of Majuba Hill in 1881. Lord de Montalt died on the 9 January 1905, aged 87, at a hotel at Holyhead, Anglesey. While waiting for a boat to Ireland he became too ill to travel and died. As he had no other surviving sons the earldom became extinct on his death. He was succeeded in his other titles by his cousin Robert Henry Maude.

References:

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• The Peerage.com

External links:

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl de Montalt

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