_.Henry Herbert Kitchener, 3rd & last Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, died 16 December, 2011, at the age of 92. He was born 24 Feb 1919, elder son of Capt Henry Franklin Chevallier Kitchener, RN, styled Viscount Broome [1878-1928] by his wife the former Adela Mary Evelyn Monins, and succeeded to the peerages on the demise of his grandfather, 27 March, 1937. Unmarried. Downton Abbey writer Lord Fellowes of West Stafford [lifer] is married to Emma Kitchener, LVO, the late peer's niece.
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Lord Kitchener will be fondly remembered by the hundreds of Kitchener Scholars who met him at the events organised by the Kitchener Scholars' Association of which he was the
ReplyDeletePresident for many years.
Despite difficulty in walking, he attended the Remembrance Day Parade in November 2011 to greet Scholars and their families.