Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe
| The Lord Cottesloe | |
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Photograph of Lord Cottesloe from the 1938 Slough Charter of Incorporation
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| Born | 5 February 1862 Mayfair, London, England |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Known for | Baron, Olympian |
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, 4th Baron Fremantle (5 February 1862 – 9 July 1956) was a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an Austrian nobleman.
Biography
Early life
Thomas Francis Fremantle was born on 5 February 1862. He was the son of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe and a direct descendant of Admiral Thomas Fremantle.
Career
He had a lifelong devotion to the armed forces and as well as commanding the Territorial Army he was also an Honorary Colonel of the Buckinghamshire battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. He was an expert shot using the rifle and published three books on the subject. He was also on the War Office Small Arms Committee. He shot in the English Eight for twenty seven years and was its Captain from 1920 until his death. He competed in the 1000 yard free rifle event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
In 1911, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.[2]
On the death of his friend and fellow rifleman Sir Henry St. John Halford, 3rd Baronet of Wistow Hall, Leicestershire in 1897, he inherited the Wistow estate and continued there the ballistic trials they had jointly carried out on the Wistow rifle range. His descendants still occupy the Hall. [3]
Personal life
He resided in Swanbourne in Buckinghamshire. The house in which he lived is still the home of his descendants today. He died on 9 July 1956.
He had married to Frances (Anne) Tapling, daughter of the industrialist Thomas Tapling and sister of MP Thomas Tapling Jr.[4] and was succeeded by his son John Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe.
References
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| Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 1923–1954 |
Succeeded by Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, Bt |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by | Baron Cottesloe 1918–1956 |
Succeeded by John Fremantle |
| Titles of nobility of the Austrian Empire |
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| Preceded by | Baron Fremantle 1918–1956 |
Succeeded by John Fremantle |
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