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George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

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German prince (1892–1938)


The Marquess of Milford Haven

Portrait byPhilip de László, 1924
BornPrince George of Battenberg
(1892-11-06)6 November 1892[1]
New Palace,Darmstadt,Grand Duchy of Hesse,German Empire
Died8 April 1938(1938-04-08) (aged 45)
London, England
Buried13 April 1938
Bray, Berkshire, England
Spouse
Issue
FatherLouis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven
MotherPrincess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch Royal Navy
Years of service1905–1932
RankCaptain (Retired List)
Battles / warsFirst World War

CaptainGeorge Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (6 November 1892[1] – 8 April 1938), bornPrince George of Battenberg, styledEarl of Medina between 1917 and 1921, was aRoyal Navy officer and the elder son ofLouis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (Prince Louis of Battenberg), andPrincess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.

Biography

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Prince George of Battenberg, as he then was, was born atDarmstadt in theGrand Duchy of Hesse, then ruled by his maternal uncleErnest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. From birth, he was a prince of the Hessian royal family, albeit of amorganatic branch. His siblings werePrincess Alice (mother ofPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to whom he was a mentor in Philip's adolescence),Queen Louise of Sweden andLouis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (who assumed the role of Philip's mentor after George's death).

George followed his father into theRoyal Navy, and after passing out from theRoyal Naval College at Dartmouth, was promoted tosub-lieutenant on 15 January 1913.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 15 February 1914,[3] and served in theFirst World War. In 1917, his father and several of his relations relinquished their German names, styles and titles in exchange for British peerages at the behest ofGeorge V. Accordingly, Prince George dropped the style ofSerene Highness and his surname was anglicised to "Mountbatten." When his father was createdMarquess of Milford Haven in late 1917, George received thecourtesy title ofEarl of Medina, succeeding to his father's peerage after his death in September 1921. During the war, George's auntEmpress Alexandra of Russia along with his uncle by marriageNicholas II of Russia, five cousins and another auntElisabeth werekilled bycommunistrevolutionaries.

Lord Milford Haven, as George was now known, remained in the Royal Navy after the war; he was promoted to lieutenant-commander on 15 February 1922[4] and to commander on 31 December 1926.[5] In 1932, he retired from active service at his own request, with effect from 9 December of that year.[6] On 6 November 1937, shortly before his death, he was promoted to the rank ofcaptain on the retired list.[7]

An accomplished mathematician, theMarquess "could work out complicated gunnery problems in his head" and "read books oncalculus casually on trains".[8]Queen Elizabeth II, his niece-in-law, considered him "one of the most intelligent and brilliant of people".[9]

Marriage and issue

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Prince George of Battenberg, as he then was known, marriedCountess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby (daughter of RussianGrand Duke Michael Mikhailovich Romanov and hismorganatic wife,Countess Sophie von Merenberg) on 15 November 1916 at the Russian Embassy, Welbeck Street,London. They lived at Lynden Manor[10] atHolyport inBerkshire and had two children:

Death

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Lord Milford Haven died ofbone marrow cancer, aged 45, and was buried in Bray Cemetery,Bray,Berkshire.

Legacy to the British Museum

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Lord Milford Haven left artifacts to theBritish Museum.[11][12]

Honours

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National

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Foreign

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Arms

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Coat of arms of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
Coronet
ACoronet of a Marquess
Crest
1st: Out of a Coronet Or two Horns barry of ten Argent and Gules issuing from each three Linden Leaves Vert and from the outer side of each horn four Branches barwise having three like Leaves pendent therefrom of the last (Hesse); 2nd: Out of a Coronet Or a Plume of four Ostrich Feathers alternately Argent and Sable (Battenberg)
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure a Lion rampant double-queued barry of ten Argent and Gules armed and langued of the last crowned Or within a Bordurecompony of the second and third (Hesse); 2nd and 3rd, Argent twoPallets Sable (Battenberg); charged on the honour point with an Escutcheon of the arms ofPrincess Alice of the United Kingdom, namely theRoyal Arms differenced by aLabel of three points Argent the centre point charged with a Rose Gules barbed Vert and each of the other points with an Ermine Spot Sable
Supporters
On either side a Lion double-queued and crowned all Or
Motto
In Honour Bound
Orders
The shield is surrounded by the heraldiccirclet of theRoyal Victorian Order, which bears the order's motto (VICTORIA), and suspended below the shield is the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the order (GCVO)

Ancestry

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Ancestors of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
8.Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse[20]
4.Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine[18]
9.Princess Wilhelmine of Baden[20]
2.Prince Louis of Battenberg
10. CountJohn Maurice Hauke[21]
5.Julia, Princess of Battenberg[18]
11. Sophie Lafontaine[21]
1.George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
12.Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine[22]
6.Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse[19]
13.Princess Elisabeth of Prussia[22]
3.Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
14.Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[19]
7.Princess Alice of the United Kingdom[19]
15.Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom[19]

Notes

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  1. ^abHessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand:901; Laufende Nummer:150
  2. ^"No. 28688".The London Gazette. 7 February 1913. p. 960.
  3. ^"No. 28802".The London Gazette. 17 February 1914. p. 1273.
  4. ^"No. 32613".The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 February 1922. p. 1414.
  5. ^"No. 33235".The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1926. p. 8.
  6. ^"No. 33890".The London Gazette. 9 December 1932. p. 7833.
  7. ^"No. 34454".The London Gazette. 12 November 1937. p. 7087.
  8. ^Hough, p. 359
  9. ^Quoted in Hough, p. 360
  10. ^Lynden Manor Berkshire History
  11. ^"Is that it?".the Guardian. 23 February 2002. Retrieved4 August 2021.
  12. ^"Printed books".The British Library. Archived fromthe original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved4 August 2021.
  13. ^The Navy List, for July, 1918, Corrected to the 18th June, 1918. p. 2110.
  14. ^[1]Milford Haven (1917)Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  15. ^"No. 34453".The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 November 1937. p. 7037.
  16. ^"No. 30227".The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 August 1917. p. 8208.
  17. ^"No. 30116".The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1917. p. 5591.
  18. ^abBattenberg family at theEncyclopædia Britannica
  19. ^abcdWeir, Alison (1996).Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (Revised ed.). London: Pimlico. pp. 305–307.ISBN 0-7126-7448-9.
  20. ^abMetnitz, Gustav Adolf (1953)."Alexander".Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 1. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. p. 192. (full text online).
  21. ^abFranz, E.G. (2005).Das Haus Hessen: Eine europäische Familie. Stuttgart:Kohlhammer Verlag. pp. 164–170.ISBN 978-3-17-018919-5.OCLC 76873355.
  22. ^abFranz, Eckhart G. (1987)."Ludwig IV.".Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 15. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 398–400. (full text online).

References

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  • The Navy List, for July, 1918, Corrected to the 18th June, 1918. His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1918.
  • 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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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded byMarquess of Milford Haven
1921–1938		Succeeded by


Generations are numbered by their descent fromPrince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine andJulia, Princess of Battenberg
1st generation
2nd generation
3rd generation
4th generation
5th generation
  • Lady Tatiana Dru
  • Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
  • Ella Mountbatten
  • Alexandra Mountbatten
  • Louise Mountbatten
*Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles.
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