Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond, GCVO,TD,DL,JP,ADC (26 May 1859 – 25 November 1939), styled Viscount Feilding from 1865 to 1892, was a British Army officer and peer.
In March 1902, Lord Denbigh was head of a mission sent by the British government to congratulate Pope Leo XIII upon entering on the 25th year of his Pontificate.[4] He was aide-de-camptoGeorge V from 1911 to 1926.[5][1]
On 24 September 1884, the then Viscount Fielding married Hon. Cecilia Mary Clifford (1860–1919), daughter of Charles Hugh Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh and the Hon. Agnes Louisa Catherine (née Petre). They had three sons and seven daughters:
Lady Agnes Mary Mabel Feilding (13 September 1891 – 31 August 1938), a nun.[6]
Lady Marjorie Mary Winifrede Feilding (4 September 1892 – 1979), married firstly Capt. Edward Hanly, of Avonmore House, County Wicklow, officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, in 1915 (divorced 1923),[6] and secondly Capt. Robert Arthur Heath in 1923.
Capt. Hon. Henry Simon Feilding (29 June 1894 – 9 October 1917), killed at the Battle of Passchendaele.
Lady Clare Mary Cecilia Feilding (23 November 1896 – 1966), married G/Capt. Joseph Smyth-Pigott, a Royal Air Force officer, and had issue.
Lady Elizabeth Mary Feilding (22 August 1899 – 1982), married Eric Sherbrooke Walker,[6] and had issue.
Lady Victoria Mary Dolores Feilding (29 March 1901 – 1985), married Walter Miles Fletcher, and had issue.
A widower, the Earl married, secondly, on 12 February 1923 to Kathleen Emmet (d. 13 February 1952), daughter and heiress of Thomas Addis Emmet, of New York City, a scion of the family of United Irishmen leaders Thomas Addis Emmet and Robert Emmet.[7][8]
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
British Army
– Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) 1927
– Order of the Nile (Egypt) 1915
– Grand Cross, Military order of Christ (Portugal)
– Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III (Spain)
