Hector Stewart Vandeleur (1836 - 1909)

Born 18 Jan 1836 in Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Charlotte Louise (Foster) Vandeleur — married 18 Jul 1867 in Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1909 at age 73 in London, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Hector Stewart Vandeleur, the son of Crofton Moore Vandeleur and Grace Toler, was born on 18 January 1836. He was the twin brother of John Toler Vandeleur. The twins were baptised on 19 April 1836 at St George's, Dublin. ^{[1] [2]}

He married Charlotte Louise Foster on 18 July 1867 at London, England. ^[3]
..... The marriage of Mr. Hector Stewart Vandeleur, late of the Rifle Brigade, eldest son of Colonel Crofton Moore Vandeleur, M.P., and Lady Grace Vandeleur, of Kilrush, county Clare, and Miss Charlotte Foster, eldest daughter of Mr. William Orme Foster, M.P., of Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, was solemnised at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, on Thursday.^[4]

Address 1871: Civil parish: St George Hanover Square, Ecclesiastical parish: St Michael, London, England; Registration district: St George Hanover Square Sub-registration district: Belgrave

From 1881 (until Kilrush House accidentally burned down in March 1897) Hector Stewart lived mainly in London and only spent short periods each year in Kilrush. ..... during the years 1886 to 1890 which coincided with the period of the greatest number evictions from the Vandeleur Estate he does not appear to have visited Kilrush. In 1889 he bought Cahercon House and then it was only a matter of time before the Vandeleurs moved to Cahercon as in 1896 they were holding shooting parties at Kilrush House and also at the Cahercon Demesne. In April 1901 Hector leased the shooting rights at Cahercon from James C. R. Scott for seven years for £5 and in October 1908 he again leased these rights for another seven years. ^[5]

Hector Stewart Vandeleur died in 1909 at London, England.^[6]
Death of Capt. H. S. Vandeleur.
News was received in Ennis on Monday of the death in London of Captain H. S. Vandeleur, Lord Lieutenant for County Clare. The deceased gentleman, who was in his seventy fourth year, was the eldest son of Colonel Crofton Moore Vandeleur, M.P., and Lady Grace Toler, daughter of the second Earl of Norbury. He was educated at Eton, and was attached to the Rifle Brigade. In 1867 he married Miss Charlotte Foster, and was appointed High Sheriff of the County Clare, afterwards becoming Lord Lieutenant of the county.^[7]
OBITUARY.
CAPTAIN VANDELEUR. H.M.L.
The death occurred yesterday, at his London residence, of Captain Hector S. Vandeleur, in the 74th year of his age, after an illness of about four month’s duration. He was son of Colonel Crofton Moore Vandeleur, formerly member of Parliament for Kilrush, and of Lady Grace Vandeleur. He is succeeded by his son, Lieutenant A. Moore Vandeleur in the extensive family estates in County Clare. Captain Vandeleur was for many years His Majesty’s Lieutenant for his native County of Clare. A considerable portion of his earlier life was spent in the Army, during which time he was attached to the Rifle Brigade, and he retired when he attained the rank of Captain. During the land agitation of the late eighties, his name was prominently before the public in connection with the evictions on the Vandeleur estate, in West Clare, in connection with which the late Lord Russell of Killowen made an award which has been frequently referred to in subsequent legal decisions affecting points raised in connection with the operations of the land laws. These evictions created at the time considerable excitement in Ireland, and were followed with no small amount of interest throughout the United Kingdom. In recent years the relations between landlord and tenants were of a most amicable character, and within the past one or two a number of tenants who were disposed during the evictions have been restored to their holdings on the estate under the operations of the Evicted Tenants Act. Captain Vandeleur was married, in July 1869, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Wm. Orme Foster, M.P., of Stourton Castle, Staffordshire. His eldest son was Lieutenant Seymour Vandeleur, D.S.O., of the Scots Guards, who saw a good deal of active service abroad, and who, it will be remembered, met his death under very tragic circumstances during the South African war. Lieutenant Seymour Vandeleur had previously served in the Soudan, and published some geographical works of considerable value. After he left the Army Captain Vandeleur was accustomed to spend a portion of the year on his Clare estates, residing first at Kilrush House, which was accidentally destroyed by fire about thirteen years ago. The Irish residence of the family since that date has been Cahercon House, beautifully situated on the banks of the Shannon. The interment will take place at Kilrush on Friday afternoon.^{[8] [9]}

His memorial plaque is in the Vandeleur family vault at Kilrush, county Clare, Ireland.
On the right wall beneath a window:
“ To the Glory of God, and in loving memory of Hector Stewart Vandeleur (Late Captain Rifle Brigade) Lord Lieutenant of Co. Clare. Born January 18th 1836. Died October 3rd 1909. This window is erected by his widow” ^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Area - DUBLIN (COI) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ST. GEORGE Baptism of JOHN TOLES HECTOR [and] STEWART VANDELEUR of CAVENDISH ROW on 19 April 1836 https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
2. ↑ Image of parish register records date of birth and parents as CROFTON MOORE and LADY GRACE at https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-298-2-3-031
3. ↑ Marriages Sep 1867 VANDELEUR HECTOR STEWART District St. Geo. H. Sq. Vol 1a Page 607 https://www.freebmd.org.uk
4. ↑ 'Marriage of Miss Foster.' “Birmingham Journal” Saturday 20 July 1867 page 6 column 3 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
5. ↑ Clare County Library 'Vandeleurs of Kilrush County Clare by Senan Scanlan' http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/fam_his/vandeleurs/leave_kilrush.htm
6. ↑ Deaths Dec 1909 VANDELEUR HECTOR S. Age 73 District Marylebone Vol 1a Page 335 https://www.freebmd.org.uk
7. ↑ “Galway Express” Saturday 09 October 1909 page 6 column 2 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
8. ↑ “Irish Times” Tuesday 05 October 1909 page 6 column 7 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
9. ↑ For an extensive account of his funeral see “CAPTAIN H. S. VANDELEUR H. M. L. Laid in the Ancestral Cloisters of Kilrush' “Kilrush Herald and Killee Gazette” Friday 15 October 1909 page 5 columns 1-2 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
10. ↑ Scanlan, Senan. 'Memorial Inscriptions from the Church of Ireland Graveyard, Kilrush' https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/fam_his/vandeleurs/memorial_inscriptions.htm

See also:

• Biographical details in entry for his father, Crofton Moore Vandeleur. Quinn, James. 2017. 'Vandeleur, Crofton Moore' "Dictionary of Irish Biography" https://www.dib.ie/biography/vandeleur-crofton-moore-a9946#co-subject-A