Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron


Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron, CMG, DSO*, JP, DL was a British Army officer and local politician.

Early life and family

Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron was born on 5 July 1873, the second son of George Rothe Ladeveze Adlercron, of Moyglare, County Meath, and his wife Aloÿse Blanche Lilias, second daughter of Baron Godefroi de Blonay, of Vernand, Lausanne. In 1910, Adlercron married Hester, younger daughter of John Chandler Bancroft, of Boston in the United States, and had four daughters: Lillias Nina Aloyse, Meliora Lavinia, Hester Elizabeth and Pauline Aymee Margaret. Meliora died in 1930 from injuries sustained in a motoring accident; in 1936, the youngest daughter, Pauline, married John Christopher Morrell Blackie, son of Ernest Blackie, Bishop of Grimsby.

Career

Army

After schooling at Eton, Adlercron was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles on 12 February 1892. Following a promotion to Lieutenant in 1893, he was transferred at that rank to The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders on 2 June 1894 after Lt F. A. MacFarlan was appointed Adjutant. He took part in the Nile Expedition and Second Boer War, being mentioned in dispatches in both conflicts. Promotion to Captain followed in 1899, before Adlercron was seconded to be an Adjutant in the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, part of the Territorial Force. He was appointed a Brigade Major that October, before promotion to Major two years later.
Adlercron served in Europe during World War I. He was made a Brigade Major in The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in August 1914, and the following October was promoted to temporary Lieutenant Colonel, commanding a territorial unit, the 6th West Riding Regiment. He subsequently commanded 148th and 124th Infantry Brigades. By 1916, he was a temporary Brigadier and was promoted that December to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. By the time the war was over, he had been mentioned in dispatches seven times, received the Distinguished Service Order, and been appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. He was placed on the retired list in March 1920 and granted the honorary rank of Brigadier. He was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.

Later life

Adlercron was a Justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire. In 1946, he was elected onto Kesteven County Council for the Welby division; he was returned again in 1949, and 1952. He died on 12 June 1966.

Heraldry

Adlercron bore the following coat of arms: Quarterly 1 and 4 Argent and eagle displayed wings inverted Sable langued Gules membered and ducally crowned Or; 2 and 3 Argent a chevron in point embowed between in chief two mullets and in base a lion rampant all Gules. Quarters 1 and 4 represented the family of Adlercron, while the other two were for Trapaud.

Likeness