Christopher William Vane, 10th Baron Barnard

Christopher William Vane, 10th Baron Barnard is my11th cousin. He was the grandson of William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter and Lady Georgina Sophia Pakenham . It was a Vane who married into the Spencer Churchill famly - the family of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. Lord Barnard received many honours. In 1930 he was invested as a Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. and gained the honorary rank of Colonel in the service of the 6th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry, his former unit. He was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1955. Upon the completion of his degree, he entered the armed services, participating in World War I as a Major in the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry in which he was awarded the Military Cross and wounded in action twice. His eldest brother, the Hon. Henry Cecil Vane, heir apparent to the barony of Barnard, also served in the Great War but was subsequently wounded and died of those wounds shortly thereafter, leaving his younger brother heir apparent to the title of Baron Barnard... http://www.rabycastle.com/.../vane_coat_of_arms_tn.jpg