Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
Henry Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne( 7 January 1816 – 5 July 1866), styled Lord Henry Petty- FitzMaurice until 1836 and Earl of Shelburne between 1836 and 1863, was a British politician.
Lord Charles Bruce
Captain Lord Charles William Brudenell- Bruce PC( 18 June 1834 – 16 April 1897), styled Lord Charles Bruce, was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician.
He served as Vice- Chamberlain of the Household under William Ewart Gladstone between 1880 and 1885.
Lord Charles Wellesley
Major- General Lord Charles Wellesley( 16 January 1808 – 9 October 1858, Apsley House) was a British politician, soldier and courtier.
He was the second son of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and Catherine Pakenham.
He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1824, aged 16.
He was rusticated by the Dean of Christ Church, Samuel Smith, transferring in 1826 to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating M.A. in 1831.
He married Augusta Sophia Anne Pierrepont, daughter of The Hon. Henry Pierrepont, on 9 July 1844.
They had six children:
Wellesley represented the Conservative Party as the Member of Parliament( MP) for South Hampshire from 1842 to 1852, and the MP for Windsor from 1852 to 1855.
He was also a Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to Queen Victoria.
Lord Charles died aged 50 in 1858.
When his older brother, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, died in 1884 with no heirs, Lord Charles's second child, Henry Wellesley( as the oldest surviving son) inherited his uncle's dukedom as Duke of Wellington.
When Henry also died childless in 1900, the peerage passed to Lord Charles ’ second son Arthur Wellesley, Henry's brother.
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, (14 January 1845 – 3 June 1927) was a British statesman who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
In 1917, during the First World War, he wrote the "Lansdowne Letter" vainly advocating a compromise peace.
He has the distinction of having held senior positions in Liberal and Conservative Party governments.
Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish
Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish( 5 August 1905 – 23 March 1944) was the second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, Lady Evelyn Emily Mary Petty- FitzMaurice.
He was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, Eton, and Cambridge University.
He joined the Royal Tank Regiment where he became a lieutenant.
In 1932, he married the dancer Adele Astaire( 1896 – 1981), a star of Broadway theatre and the London stage and sister of Fred Astaire, at his family seat of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
He had met Adele in London in 1927 and courted her when he worked for the bank J.P. Morgan& Co. in New York City.
Adele proposed to Lord Charles at the 21 Club in Manhattan.
Their children – a daughter born in 1933 and twin sons born in 1935 – lived only for a few hours.
The couple lived at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Ireland, which had been given to them as a wedding present by Lord Charles's father, the 9th Duke of Devonshire.
A clause in Lord Charles's will stipulated that Lismore Castle was to go to his nephew, Lord Andrew Cavendish, if Adele remarried, which she did in 1947, to Kingman Douglass.
Cavendish died at Lismore Castle, aged 38, of long- term acute alcoholism and was buried at Lismore Cathedral.
Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne
Charles Hope Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne (9 January 1917 – 30 August 1944) was a British nobleman and peer.
He was the son of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne.
He died aged 27, in Italy, killed in action during the Second World War.
Captain Charles Hope Fitzmaurice Lansdowne served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps and died on 20 August 1944.
Lord Lansdowne was unmarried and childless, and his titles passed to his cousin, George Petty-Fitzmaurice, as his younger brother had also been killed in action in Normandy nine days earlier.
The Scottish title Lord Nairne, however, passed to his elder sister Katherine Evelyn Constance Petty-Fitzmaurice (1912–1995), who became the 12th Baroness Nairne.
She also inherited Derreen House and Gardens (Lauragh, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland) from her brother.
Ray Alan
Ray Alan( 18 September 1930 – 24 May 2010) was an English ventriloquist and television entertainer from the 1950s until the 1980s.
He was associated primarily with the dummy" Lord Charles" and later also with the puppets" Tich" and" Quackers".
Lord Charles was the first ventriloquist's dummy, to have his own personal microphone, which was first fitted by sound professional Douglas Oakley whilst working with Lord Charles at Thames TV, and became a regular feature thereafter.
Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice
Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice MVO (12 February 1874 – 30 October 1914) was an English soldier and courtier.
Petty-Fitzmaurice was the younger son of Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne and Maud Evelyn Hamilton.
He joined the 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1895, and served as an aide-de-camp to Frederick Roberts during the Boer War 1899-1900.
He stayed as a Lieutenant of the 1st Dragoon Guards until January 1901, when he was seconded for service on the army staff as Aide-de-camp to Lord Roberts, who had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.
Lord Roberts resigned when this post was abolished in early 1904, and Petty-Fitzmaurice was promoted to Captain of his former regiment the 1st Dragoons in October 1904.
In May 1902, he was part of a delegation led by the Duke of Connaught to take part in the enthronement ceremonies in Madrid for the young King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and he was awarded the First class of the Spanish Order of Military Merit.
On 20 January 1909, he married Lady Violet Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynymound (daughter of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto and Mary Caroline Grey) and they had two children:
From 1909 he was an equerry to the Prince of Wales (later George V) until he was killed in action in World War I.
He is buried in Ypres Town Cemetery.
The inscription on his gravestone reads: .
His widow Violet remarried to John Jacob Astor V on 28 August 1916.
Violet Astor
Violet Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound DStJ (28 May 1889 – 3 January 1965) was an English aristocrat.
She was a daughter of an Earl and married twice, first to Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, and then to John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, and the mother of five children, including George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, and Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever.
Lord Charles Clinton
Lord Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton (3 December 1813 – 15 December 1894), known as Lord Charles Clinton, was a British Conservative politician.

Question: What nationality is Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice's father?
Answer: British