Viscount Hawarden, Robert Cornwallis Maude


Lieutenant / Coldstream Guards

1890 - 1914
Biography:

Robert Cornwallis Maude, 6th Viscount Hawarden, was born 6 September 1890, the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Henry Maude, 5th Viscount Hawarden and Caroline, daughter of Major Arthur Ogle. 

He came to Winchester College from the Revd EM Hawtrey's school at Westgate-on-Sea in May 1904 and was in B House, Moberly's. Little is known about his time at Winchester and he left in the summer of 1908 for Christ Church, Oxford, in 1908. He then obtained a commission in the Coldstream Guards shortley after taking his degree in 1912. He succeeded his father as 6th Viscount Hawarden the same year.

Robert died on 26 August 1914, of wounds received the day before at Landrecies during the retreat from Mons and is buried in Grave B.3 of the Landrecies Communal Cemetery. 

There is more information about him here https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/fallen-alumni/lieutenant-6th-viscount-robert-cornwallis-maude-hawarden-ba


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