page_title: Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester / Career
caption_attribution_description: Kimbolton
context_page_description: Alexander George Francis Drogo Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester, OBE, was a Royal Navy officer and British hereditary peer. From birth until 1947 he was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Mandeville.
context_section_description: From Dartmouth, Lord Mandeville was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1919. He held the rank of Commander when he retired from the service in 1930.
  During the Second World War, Mandeville was posted to Ceylon, and in 1940 was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. After the end of the War he gave up living in England, moving to Kenya in 1946. There, he farmed an estate of 10,000 acres. He succeeded to the Dukedom of Manchester on his father's death in 1947.
  During the 1950s, the Duke sold both the principal family seat, Kimbolton Castle, along with most of its contents, and Tandragee Castle in Ireland. By the 1960s, he had also sold most of the other landed estates in the British Isles which had come to him.
caption: Kimbolton Castle, the family seat which the 10th Duke was the last to own
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