Ancestral Trails 2016 » Shane Edward Robert O'NEILL (1907-1944)

Persoonlijke gegevens Shane Edward Robert O'NEILL 

• Hij is geboren op 6 februari 1907 in London, Middlesex.
• Hij is gedoopt op 18 maart 1907 in St Mary, Bryanston Square, Westminster, Middlesex.
• Titel: 3rd Baron O'Neill of Shane's Castle
• Hij is overleden op 24 oktober 1944 in Coriano, Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, hij was toen 37 jaar oud.

Gezin van Shane Edward Robert O'NEILL

Hij is getrouwd met Anne Geraldine Mary CHARTERIS.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 oktober 1932 te St George, Hanover Square, Belgravia, Westminster, Middlesex, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Notities over Shane Edward Robert O'NEILL

Shane Edward Robert O'Neill, 3rd Baron O'Neill (1907-1944) was an Anglo-Irish peer and British Army officer. He served during World War II and was killed in action in Italy.

O'Neill was born on 6 February 1907 to The Hon Arthur O'Neill and his wife Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes. His mother was the eldest daughter of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe. He was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. He did not attend university.

His brother Terence was a politician who became Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

He married Anne Charteris, granddaughter of the 11th Lord Wemyss, in 1932. After his death she remarried, firstly to the 2nd Lord Rothermere, a press tycoon and former Tory MP, and later to Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, as well as having affairs with the Labour politicians Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins.

Career
In 1929, O'Neill joined the Gillett Brothers Discount Company as a director.

Military service
On 30 August 1929, he was promoted to lieutenant in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.

With the outbreak of World War II, he was granted an emergency commission on 20 September 1939 as a second lieutenant in the North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps. In October 1939, he was granted the acting rank of captain. In December 1939, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and appointed the officer commanding A Squadron. He was killed in action in Italy on 24 October 1944, aged 37, and is buried in the Coriano Ridge War Cemetery near Riccione.

Peerage
His father, Arthur O'Neill, and grandfather, Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill, were Members of Parliament representing Mid Antrim and Antrim respectively in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. As the 2nd Baron O'Neill's eldest surviving son, Shane's father was heir to the title of Baron O'Neill. At his birth, Shane became second in line to the title of Baron O'Neill. However, his father died in action during World War I and he therefore became his grandfather's heir. He succeeded to the title after his grandfather's death in 1928, becoming the 3rd Baron O'Neill.

As a hereditary peer with a Peerage of the United Kingdom, he was able to sit in the House of Lords. Though he had inherited the title in 1928, he first took his seat in the Lords on 3 April 1930.[9] In 1937 he attended the Coronation of George VI at Westminster Abbey and paid homage to him with the other Lords Temporal.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_O%27Neill,_3rd_Baron_O%27Neill

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