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CodeDS/UK/4020
NameFielding; Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine (1859-1939); 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond; British peer, soldier
Dates1859-1939
GenderMale
BiographyRudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond GCVO TD JP DL (26 May 1859 – 25 November 1939), styled Viscount Feilding from 1865 to 1892, was the eldest son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh and Mary Berkeley, the daughter of Robert Berkeley and Henrietta Benfield.

Feilding was an artillery lieutenant at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, where he laid the horse artillery gun that hit the third railway train on the line there and prevented the further retreat of the Egyptians.

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