Lieutenant-Colonel William Chaine, MVO (1 January 1838 - 3 July 1916)[1] was a British military officer and courtier.
Military and Court career[]
Chaine was born in Antrim in 1838, and was a Lieutenant of the Antrim Artillery Militia in his early teens. He was commissioned as a Cornet in the 7th Dragoon Guards in December 1856,[2] promoted to Lieutenant in October 1857,[3] and Captain (by purchase) in May 1864.[4] One month later, in June 1864, he exchanged from the Dragoon guards to the 10th Hussars,[5] where he remained until he retired from the army. In October 1877 came a Brevet promotion to Major.[6] He retired from the army in July 1881,[7] and received the honorary rank of Lieutenant-colonel.[8] On 4 March 1881 Chaine was appointed Marshal of the Ceremonies to Queen Victoria,[9] and in 1887 he advanced to Assistant Master of the Ceremonies to the Queen. He resigned shortly after the accession of King Edward VII in 1901.[1]
He was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) by King Edward VII in July 1901[10] (the order was gazetted 16 August 1901).[11]
Family[]
Chaine was married, in the Private Chapel, Kensington Palace, on 4 December 1872,[12] to Maria Henrietta Sophia Phipps (1837-1915), widow of Captain Frederick Sayer, and the daughter of Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, KCB (1801-1866) by his wife Margaret Anne (née Bathurst). They had a son, W. R. Chaine.
Mrs. Chaine held the office of Keeper of the State Apartments at Kensington Palace, and the couple were allowed the use of a grace and favour appartement at the palace, a rare gift.[13] She died at Kensington Palace 21 December 1915,[14] and he himself died at Kensington Palace in July the following year.[15]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 CHAINE, Lt-Col William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- ↑ "No. 21949". 12 December 1856. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21949/page/
- ↑ "No. 22049". 9 Oct 1857. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22049/page/
- ↑ "No. 22852". 10 May 1864. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22852/page/
- ↑ "No. 22863". 14 June 1864. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22863/page/
- ↑ "No. 24508". 2 October 1877. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24508/page/
- ↑ "No. 25021". 30 September 1881. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25021/page/
- ↑ "No. 25074". 21 February 1882. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25074/page/
- ↑ "No. 24946". 4 March 1881. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24946/page/
- ↑ "Error: no
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