Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice

Who was Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice?

Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice MVO was an English soldier and courtier.

Petty-Fitzmaurice was the younger son of Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice and Maud Evelyn Hamilton.

He joined the 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1895, and served as an aide-de-camp to Frederick Roberts during the Boer War 1899-1900. He stayed as a Lieutenant of the 1st Dragoon Guards until January 1901, when he was seconded for service on the army staff as Aide-de-camp to Lord Roberts, who had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. Lord Roberts resigned when this post was abolished in early 1904, and Petty-Fitzmaurice was promoted Captain of his former regiment the 1st Dragoons in October 1904.

On 20 January 1909, he married Violet Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynymound and they had two children:

⁕Mary Margaret Elizabeth Petty-Fitzmaurice, married Lieutenant Colonel Ririd Myddleton.

⁕George John Charles Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice

From 1909 he was an equerry to the Prince of Wales until he was killed in action in World War I. His widow Violet remarried to John Jacob Astor V on 28 August 1916.