George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
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| Born | 6 December 1892 |
| Died | 8 April 1938 (aged 45) |
| Spouse | Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby |
| Children | Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven |
| Parent(s) | 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 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), 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 Sophie von Merenberg, Countess de Torby) 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]
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[4]
- Order of St Vladimir, 4th class, with Swords, authorised to wear 5 June 1917[5]
- Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, Grand Cordon, 1917.[6]
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 1932[4]
Ancestry
Notes
- ^ Lynden Manor Berkshire History
- ^ Hough, p.359
- ^ Quoted in Hough, p.360
- ^ a b http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/milfordhaven1917.htm, Milford Haven (1917) Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30116/supplements/5591
- ^ "No. 30363". The London Gazette (invalid
|supp=(help)). 30 October 1917.
References
- Hough, Richard (1984). Louis and Victoria: The Family History of the Mountbattens. Second edition. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-78470-6.
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Generations are numbered by their descent from Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg | ||
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*Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles. | ||
- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- 1892 births
- 1938 deaths
- Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
- Deaths from bone cancer
- Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- People from Bray, Berkshire
- Royal Navy officers
- House of Battenberg
- Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers