Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank DSO (1881 - 1965)

Born 3 Jan 1881 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Husband of Charlotte Carissima (Blood) Brocklebank — married 14 Sep 1910 in Westminster, London, England

Died 8 May 1965 at age 84 in Paddington, London, England

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Biography

Life events

Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank was born in 1881 in Liverpool, the son of Thomas Brocklebank and Mary Petrena Royds.^[1][2][3][4]

On the 14th September 1910, he married Charlotte Carissima Blood in Westminster, London.^[5][6]

His wife, Carissima, died in Kensington on the 5th December 1948, aged sixty-three years.^[7][8]

Lieut.-Colonel Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank, D.S.O., died in Paddington, London, on the 8th May 1965, aged eighty-four years.^[9][10]

Census enumerations

1891 census enumeration (England):

• Thomas Brocklebank, head, married, age 49, Cotton Broker; born in Liverpool, Lancashire
• Mary J., wife, married, age 41; born in Wa[-]ckis, Lancashire
• John W.R., son, single, age 21, Student of Oxford University; born at do.
• Ralph E., son, single, age 20, Merchant’s Clerk; born at do.
• Richard H., son, age 10, born at Liverpool
• Clement, son, age 8, born at do.
• visitors (2) and household servants (6)
• census place: Rascote, Heswall, Cheshire.^[11]

1911 census enumeration (England):

• Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank, head, age 30, married; Captain, 9th Lancers, H.M.’s Army; born at Bedford Street, Liverpool
• Charlotte Carissima, wife, age 26; born at Roorkee, India
• household servants (3)
• census place: Broad Oak Lodge, Sturry, Canterbury, Kent.^[12]

Wedding

News extract from Clifton Society, 15 September 1910:

Miss Carissima Blood’s wedding to Captain R.N.E. Brocklebank, of the 9th Lancers, takes place to-day (Wednesday), at St. Matthew’s, Great Peter-street, Westminster. The bride-elect is the only surviving daughter of General Sir Bindon and Lady Blood, whilst Captain Brocklebank is the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Brocklebank, of Wateringbury, Kent. Miss Blood is a notable sportswoman and tiger-shot, and has accounted for much big game during her last year or two in India. On completing his time in command of the Northern Army of India Sir Bindon Blood went on the retired list, and he and his wife settled down at a pleasant flat in St. James’s-court. General Sir Bindon Blood was one of Lord Kitchener’s most trusted lieutenants, and, like that fine soldier, he began his career in the Engineers. Sir Bindon Blood, who comes of an old Irish family, married a daughter of that ex-keeper of the outposts of the Empire[,] the late Sir Auckland Colvin. On her way home from India Lady Blood had the misfortune to be robbed of her jewels.^[13]

Legacy

Children

• Ursula Mary Brocklebank (1911–1982)
• Bindon Henry Edmund Brocklebank (1914–1919)
• John Ralph Auckland Brocklebank (1921–1943)

Sources

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish of St. Margaret, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. Richard Hughes Royds Brocklebank, son of Thomas Brocklebank, broker, and Mary Petrena (his wife), of 76, Bedford Street South, Liverpool; baptised 25th January 1881 by JBEll[-]Con.[?] Original record: Liverpool Record Office; Liverpool, England; Reference Number: 283 MGT/2/1. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-08-13).
2. ↑ Index of civil registrations of births, England. Richard Hugh R Brocklebank, 1st quarter ending 31st March 1881, Liverpool RD (Lancashire), vol. 8b, pg. 137. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-13).
3. ↑ 1939 Register (England and Wales). Richard H.R. Brocklebank, born 3 January 1881, married, Lieut. Col. retired, Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of Peace; Charlotte C Brocklebank, born 21 July 1886, married, unpaid domestic duties; Bindon Blood, born 9 November 1843, married, General Retired; Charlotte E Blood, born 15 October 1863, married, unpaid domestic duties; at Alveston House in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Enumeration district QEMQ, schedule no. 349, sub-schedule no. 1 (ref. RG101/5711E). Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-08-13).
4. ↑ Index of civil registrations of marriages, England. Thomas Brocklebank and Mary Petrena Royds, 2nd quarter ending 30th June 1867, West Derby RD, vol. 8b, pg. 536. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-13).
5. ↑ Globe, 19 September 1910 (pg 8). Marriage notice: “BROCKLEBANK—BLOOD.—On the 14th inst., at St. Matth[ew’s,] Westminster, Captain R.H.R. Brocklebank, 9th Lancers[, son] of Thomas Brocklebank, Esq., of Wateringbury Place, Ken[sington, to] Charlotte Carissima, daughter of Sir Bindon and Lady Blo[od].” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-08-13).
6. ↑ Index of civil registrations of marriages, England. Richard H.R. Brocklebank and Charlotte G. Blood, 3rd quarter ending 30th September 1910, St George Hanover Square RD (London), vol. 1a, pg. 1163. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-13).
7. ↑ West London Observer, 10 December 1948 (pg 5). “Woman Patient’s Suicide at Hospital. Tragedy when relief nurse was late.” Death of Mrs. Carissima Brocklebank, age 63, wife of a retired Colonel of Hyde Park Square, Paddington; stated at the inquest to have jumped out of the window of a private ward, falling 45 feet to her death. “A verdict was recorded that Mrs. Brocklebank took her life at a time when the balance of her mind was disturbed through ill-health.” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-08-13).
8. ↑ Index of civil registrations of deaths, England. Carissima C Brocklebank, aged 68 years, 4th quarter ending 31st December 1948, Kensington RD (London), vol. 5c, pg. 1085. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-13).
9. ↑ National Probate Calendar, England and Wales. “BROCKLEBANK, Richard Hugh Royds, D.S.O., of 18 Hyde Park Square, London W.2; died 8 May 1965; Probate: Lond, 12 August [1965] to The Trustees Corporation Limited and Ursula Mary, Lady Rayleigh, married woman.” (ref. 1965, pg. 791.) Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-08-13, by subscription).
10. ↑ Index of civil registrations of deaths, England. Richard H.R. Brocklebank, aged 84 years, 2nd quarter ending 30th June 1965, Paddington RD (London), vol. 5d, pg. 426. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-13).
11. ↑ England 1891 Census. Thomas Brocklebank, age 49, with wife, Mary P. (41) and children, including Richard H., age 10, born at Liverpool; in Heswall, Cheshire. Original records: Census Returns of England & Wales, 1891 (Kew, Surrey: The National Archives of the UK, 1891); sub-registration district: Neston, enumeration district no. 2, civil parish of Stowmarket; PRO ref. RG12, piece 2871, folio 28. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-08-13).
12. ↑ England 1911 Census. Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank, age 30, with wife, Charlotte Carissima (26), in Sturry, Kent. Original record: Census Returns for England & Wales, 1911 (Kew, Surrey: National Archives of the UK, 1911), PRO ref. RG 14, piece 4347, registration district: Blean, sub-registration district: Sturry, enumeration district no. 2. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-08-13, by subscription).
13. ↑ Clifton Society, 15 September 1910 (pg 6). “Miss Carissima Blood’s wedding to Captain R.N.E. Brocklebank, …” citing biographical notes for Sir Bindon Blood and his wife. Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-28).