Melville Henry Massue | |
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![]() Massue in 1911 | |
Born | Fulham, Middlesex, England | 26 April 1868
Died | 6 October 1921 Southwark, London, England | (aged 53)
Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de la Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny [1] (26 April 1868 – 6 October 1921) was a British genealogist and author who was twice president of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland. He styled himself the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval. [2]
Massue was descended from a sister of Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, a Huguenot aristocrat who emigrated to England in 1688 and became a prominent supporter of William of Orange. [3] He was born in London to Colonel Charles Henry Theodore Bruce de Ruvignes and Margaret Melville Moodie, the daughter of a Scottish laird. [4] He succeeded his father as 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th Marquis of Raineval in 1883, [1] though his right to these titles was disputed by the authors of The Complete Peerage. [5] In 1893, he married Rose Amalia Gaminara, with whom he had three children. [4]
Massue was an early member of the Jacobite Order of the White Rose, though he found the sentimental nature of the order restrictive. [6] In 1891, he co-founded the Legitimist Jacobite League with Herbert Vivian and Ruaraidh Erskine as a more political and radical Jacobite society. [7] He served as president from 1893–94 and again from 1897–99. [2] The league was one of the principal organizations driving the Neo-Jacobite Revival of the 1890s. In 1898, he was made a knight of the Order of Charles III by the Duke of Madrid, the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain.
Massue was a prolific author of genealogical works and a committed member of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1902. [8] He died in a London nursing home and was succeeded by his second son, Charles, "Comte de la Caillemotte", his first son having died unexpectedly shortly before the First World War. [9]
Melville Henry Massue | |
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![]() Massue in 1911 | |
Born | Fulham, Middlesex, England | 26 April 1868
Died | 6 October 1921 Southwark, London, England | (aged 53)
Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de la Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny [1] (26 April 1868 – 6 October 1921) was a British genealogist and author who was twice president of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland. He styled himself the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval. [2]
Massue was descended from a sister of Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, a Huguenot aristocrat who emigrated to England in 1688 and became a prominent supporter of William of Orange. [3] He was born in London to Colonel Charles Henry Theodore Bruce de Ruvignes and Margaret Melville Moodie, the daughter of a Scottish laird. [4] He succeeded his father as 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th Marquis of Raineval in 1883, [1] though his right to these titles was disputed by the authors of The Complete Peerage. [5] In 1893, he married Rose Amalia Gaminara, with whom he had three children. [4]
Massue was an early member of the Jacobite Order of the White Rose, though he found the sentimental nature of the order restrictive. [6] In 1891, he co-founded the Legitimist Jacobite League with Herbert Vivian and Ruaraidh Erskine as a more political and radical Jacobite society. [7] He served as president from 1893–94 and again from 1897–99. [2] The league was one of the principal organizations driving the Neo-Jacobite Revival of the 1890s. In 1898, he was made a knight of the Order of Charles III by the Duke of Madrid, the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain.
Massue was a prolific author of genealogical works and a committed member of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1902. [8] He died in a London nursing home and was succeeded by his second son, Charles, "Comte de la Caillemotte", his first son having died unexpectedly shortly before the First World War. [9]