Archibald Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford

Archibald Brabazon Sparrow Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford, KP (2 August 1841 – 11 April 1922) was a British peer.

The son of Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, he was born at Worlingham Hall, Suffolk,[1] in 1841, and succeeded to the earldom upon the death of his father in 1864. Since there are two United Kingdom peerages (e.g. Baron Worlingham) subsumed in that Irish Earldom, he was entitled to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He was Lord Lieutenant of Armagh from 1883 to 1920, and served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household of Queen Alexandra from 1901.[2][3]

He was Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers from 1899, and Vice-Admiral of Ulster.[4] Gosford died in London in 1922, aged 80, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.[1]

Family
Acheson Sisters (Ladies Alexandra, Mary and Theo Acheson), John Singer Sargent, 1902

He married Lady Louisa Augusta Beatrice Montagu (named, in 1920, as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, DBE), daughter of William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, at London on 10 August 1876, with whom he had the following children:

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References
  1. The Complete Peerage, Volume VI. St Catherine's Press. 1926. p. 34.
  2. "No. 27292". The London Gazette. 8 March 1901. p. 1648.
  3. Montague-Smith, P.W. (1980). Debrett's peerage and baronetage: with Her Majesty's Royal Warrant Holders 1980 : comprises information concerning the Royal Family, the peerage, Privy Counsellors, Scottish Lords of Session, baronets, and chiefs of names and clans in Scotland. Debrett's Peerage. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-905649-20-7. Sir ARCHIBALD Acheson of Edinburgh, later of Market Hill, Clonekearney, co. ... Wales 1886–1901, and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to HM Queen Alexandra 1901–22;
  4. Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1920. Kelly's. p. 700.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Lord Lurgan		 Lord Lieutenant of Armagh
1883–1920		 Succeeded by
The Lord Armaghdale
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Archibald Acheson		 Earl of Gosford
1864–1922		 Succeeded by
Archibald Acheson


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