Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore
Captain Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore (11 February 1859 – 13 February 1885) was an Anglo-Irish peer and an officer in the 37th Foot, which was renamed as the Hampshire Regiment in 1881.
Life
Avonmore was born at Edinburgh,[1] the son of William Yelverton (later Lord Avonmore) by his marriage to Emily Marianne Ashworth, the daughter of Major-General Sir Charles Ashworth, who had previously been married to Edward Forbes, a botanist, by whom she had several children. This marriage was not welcome to Yelverton's family.[2]
He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in Berkshire, and on 30 January 1878 was commissioned into the 37th Foot as a second lieutenant. In February 1879 he was promoted to lieutenant.[1]
He became a British Army instructor in musketry and died of enteric fever at Kirbekan in 1885, while serving in the Sudan.[1] A plaque commemorating him can be found in Winchester Cathedral.
Notes
| Peerage of Ireland | ||
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| Preceded by | Viscount Avonmore 1883–1885 |
Succeeded by Algernon Yelverton |
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- 1859 births
- 1885 deaths
- Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland
- Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- 37th Regiment of Foot officers
- Royal Hampshire Regiment officers
- Deaths from typhoid fever
- Infectious disease deaths in Sudan
- British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
