Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron
Brigadier General Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron, was a British Army officer and local politician.
Early life and family
Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron was born on 5 July 1873, the second son of George Rothe Ladeveze Adlercron, of Moyglare, County Meath, and his wife Aloÿse Blanche Lilias, second daughter of Baron Godefroi de Blonay, of Vernand, Lausanne. In 1910, Adlercron married Hester, younger daughter of John Chandler Bancroft, of Boston in the United States, and had four daughters: Lillias Nina Aloyse, Meliora Lavinia, Hester Elizabeth and Pauline Aymee Margaret. Meliora died in 1930 from injuries sustained in a motoring accident; in 1936, the youngest daughter, Pauline, married John Christopher Morrell Blackie, son of Ernest Blackie, Bishop of Grimsby.Military career
After schooling at Eton, Adlercron was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles on 12 February 1892. Following a promotion to lieutenant in 1893, he was transferred at that rank to The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders on 2 June 1894 after Lieutenant F. A. MacFarlan was appointed adjutant. He took part in the Nile Expedition and Second Boer War, being mentioned in despatches in both conflicts. Promotion to Captain followed in 1899, before Adlercron was seconded to be an adjutant in the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, part of the Territorial Force. He was appointed a Brigade Major that October, before promotion to major two years later.Adlercron served on the Western Front during the First World War. He was made a Brigade Major in The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in August 1914, and the following October was promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel, commanding a Territorial Force unit, the 6th West Riding Regiment. He subsequently commanded the 148th and 124th Infantry Brigades. He was promoted to temporary brigadier general in June 1916 and was promoted that December to brevet lieutenant colonel. By the time the war was over, he had been mentioned in despatches seven times, received the Distinguished Service Order and Bar, and been appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
He was placed on the retired list in March 1920 and granted the honorary rank of brigadier general. He was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.