Gerald Cadogan, 6th Earl Cadogan

Who was Gerald Cadogan, 6th Earl Cadogan?

Gerald Oakley Cadogan, 6th Earl Cadogan, CBE, DL was a British Peer and professional soldier.

He was the son of George Henry Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan and inherited his titles on 6 March 1915 on the death of his father, two elder brothers having died without male heirs. He married Lilian Eleanor Marie Coxon, daughter of George Stewart Coxon, on 7 June 1911 at Christ Church, Mayfair, London. They had three children, the eldest son of whom was his heir William Gerald Charles Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan.

He joined the Army as a Lieutenant in the Life Guards and became a Captain in the Suffolk Regiment, seeing service in the Boer War in 1900. He later served with the South African Constabulary, and returned to London in January 1902. He acted as Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1895 to 1905.

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919 and became Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk. He was awarded the rank of Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Suffolk Volunteer Regiment.

On his death in 1933 he was succeeded by his son William Gerald Charles Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan. His wife remarried. Culford Park, the family seat, was sold and is now a private school.