Died 1 October 1918 Name Evelyn 7th Rank Major-General | Service/branch British Army Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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Battles/wars Anglo-Egyptian War
Nile Expedition Awards Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Companion of the Order of the Bath | ||
Major General Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, (24 July 1847 – 1 October 1918) was a British peer and British Army officer.
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Military career
Boscawen was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards: he played cricket for the Household Brigade and then for the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882 and, having been promoted to colonel in 1886, he also took part in the Nile Expedition between 1894 and 1895. He was promoted to major-general in 1898 and became Assistant Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ireland in 1900. He retired from the army on 9 August 1902.
Boscawen succeeded to the title of 7th Viscount Falmouth on 6 November 1889.
Family
He married Hon. Kathleen Douglas-Pennant on 19 October 1886. Their daughter, Kathleen Pamela Mary Corona (1902–1995), the actress Pamela Carme, married theatrical manager Henry Sherek.
According to Lady Randolph Churchill's sisters, he could have had a liaison with her and so have been the biological father of John Strange Spencer-Churchill, the younger brother of former Prime minister Winston Churchill.