Earl of Erne (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Earl of Erne
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18117
Call Number: LC-B2- 3342-3
Comments and faves
swanq (11 months ago | reply)
Puzzling.
The 4th Earl died in December 1914, aged 75. He was succeeded by his 7-yr-old grandson. This seems unlikely to be either of them.
swanq (11 months ago | reply)
Resolved. NYT of September 26, 1915
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B1 3F73B5812738...
has a piece on British (including Irish) peers who had been killed or were missing in action. It features this photo as the fifth Earl of Erne. It appears that Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton (1872 - 1914) went missing on November 1, 1914, before his father died. And so he was referred to as the 5th Earl. His son presumably waited until later to be given the title.
swanq (11 months ago | reply)
histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?person ID=I57837&am...
a genealogical entry has the note:
TITLES: Succeeded father (while missing in action) as Earl Erne of Crom Castle [I.], title created 1789, see 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 5 p. 93 fn. c.
and indicates that he was "reinterred at Wervico Nord by the Germans."
Burke's Annual Register
books.google.com/books?id=Wu33Rq5P-0wC&pg =RA1-PA176&a...
indicates that the Foreign Office received a telegram in June 1916 via the American Embassy in Berlin that his body had been found and reinterred.
artolog (11 months ago | reply)
Yes, unusual story.. Succeeded his father, but was most likely dead at the time of his succession.
Pete (LOC P&P) (11 months ago | reply)
Thank you swanq for the interesting background information. We may include it in the record.
mikescottnz (11 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Erne
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crichton,_4th_Earl _Erne
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_Castle
beegilmore added this photo to his favorites. (10 months ago)