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Charles Clements, 5th Earl of Leitrim

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dated 12 July 1907, and 20 August 1911, suggested that he had gone to the US and worked as a stoker. The Earl was said to have spent thousands of dollars trying to establish his whereabouts. With no heir, the Earldom of Leitrim became extinct upon the Earl's death in 1952.
74:. The Earl had no children by either of his two marriages; his only heir, his brother Francis, went to America under an assumed name, disappeared, and was pronounced dead in 1917. Accordingly, Leitrim's titles became extinct on his death in 1952. 145:. He was promoted lieutenant in the 9th Lancers on 5 July 1901, but returned to the United Kingdom when the war was drawing to a close in March 1902, and resigned his commission on 21 June 1902. 702: 707: 722: 717: 692: 737: 712: 103: 99: 623: 161: 43: 727: 697: 207: 650: 742: 196: 71: 762: 732: 200: 67: 633: 598: 192: 130: 59: 747: 504: 82:
Clements was the eldest son of Robert Clements, 4th Earl of Leitrim, whom he succeeded in 1892. He was educated at
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Later in life, he divorced Violet, and married Hon. Anne Mary Chaloner Vanneck, sister of
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but resigned due to ill health on 10 January 1917. He was Private Secretary to the
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and smuggled arms into the country for their use. He held a commission in the
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later the same month. He transferred to a regular army commission in the
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in 1904, shortly after the close of the war. During the
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in late 1899, he volunteered for active service in the
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nobleman and Unionist. He was commissioned into the
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Index

Irish
British Army
Second Boer War
Lindley, Free State
Lord Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry
Home Rule Crisis
Ulster Volunteers
County Donegal
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
World War I
Walter Hume Long
Secretary of State for the Colonies
Eton
Christ Church, Oxford
second lieutenant
Militia
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
lieutenant
Second Boer War
Imperial Yeomanry
Liverpool
South Africa
SS Cymric
9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
second lieutenant
Imperial Yeomanry
Lindley
Nuthurst
Bank of England
Sir Nevile Henderson

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