Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough

Cecil Henry Law

Colonel Cecil Henry Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough CB DL (23 November 1849 – 22 January 1931), was a British Army officer and a member of the House of Lords.

Baron Ellenborough

Cecil Henry Law was the third son of Henry Spencer Law and Dorothea (daughter of Colonel J. S. Rochfort of Clogrenane, County Carlow). Law was educated at Wellington School, Somerset, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and passed out into the Army in 1869. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his brother, Edward Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough, in 1915. He was introduced to the House of Lords on 15 February 1916, immediately after that year's King's Speech.[1]

Military career

Law was commissioned as an officer into the 54th Regiment of Foot (from 1881 The Dorsetshire Regiment) in July 1869, was promoted to lieutenant on 28 October 1871, and served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878–1880. Promoted to captain on 24 January 1883, to major on 21 June 1890, and to lieutenant-colonel on 19 November 1897, he held command during the Second Boer War in South Africa from 1900 to 1902 where he was present during the Relief of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek and Tugela Heights; he was mentioned in dispatches three times, and received the Queen's Medal with five clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps.[2][3] Following the end of the war in June that year, he returned to the United Kingdom in the RMS Dunottar Castle, which arrived at Southampton in July 1902.[4] Law was placed on half-pay in August 1902,[5] and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1906.[6]

Family and later life

After his retirement from the British Army, Lord Ellenborough took an active interest in local philanthropic and patriotic institutions. He was for many years Chairman of Dorset County Hospital and President of the Dorset Territorial Army Association.[7] Cecil Henry Law married Alice Caroline Astell in 1884, who died in 1916 (daughter of Mr John Harvey Astell of Woodbury Hall, Bedfordshire). On his death in 1931, he was succeeded by his son: Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough.

Styles of address

  • 1849–1900: Mr Cecil Henry Law
  • 1900–1902: Mr Cecil Henry Law, CB
  • 1902–1915: The Honourable Cecil Henry Law, CB
  • 1915–1931: The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough, CB

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ "The King's Speech". Hansard. 15 February 1916. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Obituaries". The Times. 24 January 1931.
  3. ↑ Hart's Army list.
  4. ↑ "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning home". The Times (36814). London. 8 July 1902. p. 11.
  5. ↑ "No. 27462". The London Gazette. 8 August 1902. p. 5099.
  6. ↑ Kidd, Charles (editor). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2015 edition) p. 419.
  7. ↑ The Times, Obituary, January 24, 1931.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough		 Baron Ellenborough
1915–1931		 Succeeded by
Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough


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