Three: Lieutenant Sir H. Mackworth, Bt., Remount Service, late Royal Monmouth Royal...

Three: Lieutenant Sir H. Mackworth, Bt., Remount Service, late Royal Monmouth Royal Engineers, Imperial Yeomanry and the Royal West Surrey Regiment 1914-15 Star (Lieut: Sir H. Mackworth. Bt: Remount Serv:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. Sir H. Mackworth. Bt.) nearly extremely fine (3) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2001. Sir Humphrey Mackworth, 7th Baronet, was born on 11 July 1871, the second son of Colonel Sir Arthur William Mackworth, C.B., 6th Baronet; his elder brother, Major Digby Mackworth, was killed in action at Ladysmith in 1900. Educated at Marlborough College and Oxford Military College (Cowley), Mackworth followed in his elder brother’s footsteps and was appointed to a commission in the 3rd Battalion the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment on 11 May 1891. Advanced Lieutenant 20 January 1894, he served in South Africa from June 1902 with the 38th Battalion (3rd Contingent), Imperial Yeomanry, but arrived too late to qualify for a medal. He returned home to England per Avondale Castle on 16 December 1902 and transferred to the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers in December 1904. In 1908, he met Miss Margaret Haig Thomas after she returned home to Caerlion upon Usk from Cambridge, and the couple were soon married at Monmouth Parish Church on 9 July 1908. The daughter of David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, Margaret became an important figurehead in the suffragette movement - aided by considerable independent wealth borne of her late father’s coal mines. On 21 June 1913 she was arrested and charged with arson for setting a post box on fire. When she refused to pay a £10 fine and £10 costs, she was sent to jail, much to the embarrassment of Mackworth who was attempting to forge a successful political career as a Liberal Member of Parliament. With the marriage crumbling, Margaret went to America accompanied by her father; she returned aboard the Lusitania and was fortunate to survive the sinking on 7 May 1915. Stories of Survivors notes: ‘Miss Conner, a cousin of Henry L. Stimson, formerly Secretary of War of the United States, was standing beside Lady Mackworth when they were flung into the water when the ship keeled over. Both women were provided with life-belts and were picked up at the point of exhaustion.’ Appointed Assistant Superintendent in the Remount Service, Mackworth served in France from September 1915. He divorced his wife - now afforded the title Viscountess Rhondda by special remainder upon her father’s death in 1918 - and went on to remarry in 1923. Without issue, Mackworth died on 2 May 1948 and was succeeded to the Baronetcy by his brother, Colonel Harry Llewellyn Mackworth, C.M.G., D.S.O. Sold with a photograph of the recipient in military uniform and extensive copied research.