William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton
° 1859 Millichope + 5.1.1921
Son of the late C.O. Childe-Pemberton, D.L., of Millichope Park, Shropshire ; married 1894, Lady Constance, youngest daughter of 6th Earl of Darnley ; one son.
Educated : Harrow.
Became representative of the family of Childe (of Kinlet) on the death of his elder brother, Major Childe, killed in the action of Bastion Hill, Natal, Jan. 1900 ; is hereditary governor Of Childe’s College, Cleobury Mortimer (founded by Sir Lacon Childe) ; co-heir to several baronies derived from Plantaganets.
Publications : Elizabet Blount and Henry VIII. ; The Romance of Princess Amelia ; Life of Lord Norton ; Memoirs of Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803.
Un jour, ma mère me donna à lire un livre en anglais, à la reliure défraîchie. Le titre en était « The Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803, » édité à Londres en 1900. « C’est l’histoire d’une lointaine aïeule anglaise émigrée en Russie, » ajouta-t-elle. Pages après pages, je découvrais l’aventure fantastique et tragique, parfois drôle, souvent émouvante d’une ancêtre à la sixième génération, dont la correspondance adressée à sa famille en Angleterre avait été éditée au début du siècle dernier.
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De la baronne Mary de Bode (1747-1812) à son arrière-arrière-petite-fille russe, la baronne Sophia de Bode (1897-1918) :
The Baroness de Bode – legend White Army
This is a story about not widely recognized pages of Russian history is the story of the disastrous fate of « maiden » edition of Capital Alexander’s military School in October 1917-year. Among the Russian patriots who wanted to fight for Russia in the First World War and had 25 women who were cadets Alexander’s military School. But fate would have it, that, having completed School in 1917, the young praporschitsy were not on the front, and in the thick of the bloodiest battles in the streets of Moscow during the October Revolution 1917 year. When the Bolsheviks seized power in a small town, many people left to fight for the Russian snow-white volunteers.
Among them was also baroness Sofia de Bode – the only female warrant officers, which has appeared in the cavalry. « Young, beautiful woman with a round face and round blue eyes in his own military uniform ensign looked and dressed up with a thin little boy. Daughter of a Russian general, brought up in a military environment, it is not posing as an officer, and learned for himself all military techniques naturally as if she were a man … » – from the memoirs of the Chairman of the State Duma Nikolay Lvov …
Les barons de Bode 