T. E.'s Famous Cousins


Last Updated 22 FEB. 2008
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Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Baron Vansittart (1881-1957), diplomat, is well known among Lawrencians. He was T. E.'s second cousin. The Baron's grandfather was Robert Vansittart of Driffield (1811-72), whose sister was Martha Louisa Vansittart (1812-89) and T. E.'s paternal grandmother. T. E. is mentioned in the Baron's autobiography[*] which was published in 1958.

Major General Orde Charles Wingate, "Lawrence of Judea" (1903-1944), is often referred to as T. E.'s distant cousin. According to his biography [**] (cf. T. E. NOTES, April 1993), he could claim kinship with T. E. and the Chapman family through his mother. The Dictionary of National Biography states that Orde's mother, Mary Ethel Stanley, daughter of Captain Orde Browne, of the Royal Horse Artillery, came from a Gloucestershire family. How were the Brownes related to the Chapmans? Unfortunately, other than the aforementioned, I have found no reference book which traces their relationship and hope that some reader will be more successful.

Other outstanding cousins were (Robert) Anthony Eden, the Conservative Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957, and Bertrand Arthur William Russell, the British philosopher who won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. They were related to T. E. through Caroline Eden (1780/81-1851), the mother of Martha Louisa Vansittart. Caroline's father, William Eden, Baron Auckland (1744-1814), had a brother named Robert, 1st Baronet (1742-89), whose descendent was Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977). He was a fourth cousin of T.E. and his second wife a niece of Winston Churchill.

Caroline Eden's mother, Eleanor Elliot (1758-1818) was a sister of Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto (1751-1814), whose granddaughter, Frances Anna Maria Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1815-98), was married to John Russell, the 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878). Bertrand, their grandson, was the 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970) and another of T. E.'s fourth cousins. Incidentary, Bertrand was a friend of both E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence.

by YAGITANI Ryōko
First published on T. E. NOTES, May 1995; revised FEB. 2008

Notes
* Mist Procession (Hutchinson & Co., London 1958) [O'Brien F1083]
** Orde Wingate (Collins, London 1959) by Christopher Sykes [O'Brien F1014]

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Robert EDEN
3rd Baronet
c.1718-55		Gilbert ELLIOT
3rd Baronet, 1722-77

Treasurer of Navy
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Robert Eden
1st Baronet
1742-89		William Eden
1st Baron Auckland
1744-1814

Undersecretary of State		Eleanor Elliot
1758-1818		Gilbert ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNNYMOND
1st Earl of Minto, 1751-1814

Governor General of India
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Frederick Eden
2nd Baronet
1766-1809		Caroline Eden
1780/81-1851		Arthur VANSITTART
of Shottesbrooke
1775-1829		Thomas CHAPMAN
2nd Baronet
1756-1837		Gilbert Elliot
2nd Earl of Minto
1782-1859

First Lord Admiralty
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William Eden
6th & 4th Baronet
1803-73		Robert Vansittart
of Driffield
1811-72		Martha Louisa
Vansittart
1812-89		William Chapman
of South Hill
1811-89		Frances Anna
Maria
Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
1815-98
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William Eden
7th & 5th Baronet
1849-1915		Robert Vansittart
of Roxley
1851-1938		Thomas Robert Tighe
Chapman (LAWRENCE)
7th Baronet
1846-1919		John RUSSELL,
Viscount Amberley
1842-76
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(Robert) Anthony Eden
1st Earl of Avon
1897-1977

Conservative Prime Minister		 Robert Vansittart,
Baron Vansittart
1881-1957

Diplomatist		 Thomas Edward
Lawrence (SHAW)
1888-1935

Lawrence of Arabia		 Bertrand Russell
3rd Earl Russell
1872-1970

Philosopher & Social Reformer
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