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Sir Walter Barttelot, 2nd Baronet

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Died
  
23 July 1900

Battles/wars
  
Second Boer War

Rank
  
Major


Service/branch
  
British Army

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Name
  
Sir Barttelot,

Unit
  
5th Dragoon Guards 1st Devon Yeomanry Cavalry Royal Sussex Regiment

Sir Walter George Barttelot, 2nd Baronet (11 April 1855 – 23 July 1900) was of the Barttelot Baronetcy and son of Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet. The Barttelots are said to have come into England with William the Conqueror, and to have fixed their residence at a place called "At Ford", in the parish of Stopham Sussex.

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Early life and military career

Barttelot was born on 11 April 1855, the first son of Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet and Harriet Musgrave. He was educated at Eton College and subsequently served for some years in the 5th Dragoon Guards, in which he attained the rank of captain, retiring in 1879.

In 1880, he was appointed captain of the 1st Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, and in 1886, captain and honorary major of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.

He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Sussex, the office of Justice of the Peace for Devon and was County Councillor for the Western Division of Sussex. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Barttelot, of Stopham, Sussex on 2 February 1893, after his father died of natural causes on the same day of his second wife's funeral.

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Barttelot volunteered for service and in eraly March 1900 was granted the temporary rank of captain in the army while serving with the volunteer company in South Africa. He was killed in action on 23 July 1900 (aged 45) at Retief's Nek, Orange Free State in South Africa.

Family

Barttelot married Georgiana Mary Balfour, the only daughter of George Edmond Balfour and Marianna Jowitt of the Manor, Sidmouth, on 3 June 1879. He was survived by his wife and two sons.

  • The eldest son, Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, 3rd Baronet, was killed in Tehran, Persia on 23 October 1918, while Military Attaché to Tehran during the First World War.
  • Barttelot's younger son, Lieutenant-Commander Nigel Kenneth Walter Barttelot, had been killed in the early days of World War I, whilst commanding the destroyer HMS Liberty during the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
  • Barttelot's younger brother, Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, Captain and Brevet Major Royal Fusiliers was killed in the Congo, Africa on 19 July 1888, while Commander of the rear column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.
  • Barttelot's sister was Dame Edith Sclater, OBE.

    • Legacy

    Barttelot Road, in Horsham, West Sussex, takes its name from the family.

    References

    Sir Walter Barttelot, 2nd Baronet Wikipedia
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