#12620, Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine FEILDING 9th Earl of Denbigh

The eldest son he succeeded to his titles on the death of his father in 1892. He was an artillery lieutenant at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, where he laid the horse artillery gun that hit the third railway train on the line there and prevented the further retreat of the Egyptians. Lord Denbigh was Colonel Commandant of the Honourable Artillery Company from before 1902 until 1933. In march 1902 he headed a mission sent by the British government to congratulate Pope Leo XIII upon entering the 25th year of his Pontificate.