| LC control no. | nr 93042306 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942 |
| Variant(s) | Arthur, Earl of Sussex, 1850-1942 Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 1850-1942 Arthur, Prince of Great Britain, 1850-1942 Arthur William Patrick Albert, Prince, son of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1850-1942 Arthur, Prince, son of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1850-1942 Connaught, Arthur, Prince, Duke of, 1850-1942 |
| Associated country | England Great Britain |
| Associated place | Canada South Africa Egypt India Ireland |
| Birth date | 1850-05-01 |
| Death date | 1942-01-16 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | Surrey (England) |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) Canada. Governor General Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England |
| Profession or occupation | Princes Great Britain--Armed Forces--Officers Governors |
| Found in | Frankland, N. Witness of a century, 1993: t.p. (Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942) Enc. Brit., 1966: v. 6, p. 348 (Connaught, Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of (1850-1942)) Wikipedia, March 13, 2019 (Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; Arthur William Patrick Albert; born 1 May 1850, Buckingham Palace, London; died 16 January 1942, Bagshot Park, Surrey, age 91; seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; he served as Governor General of Canada, the only British prince to do so; spouse: Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (m. 1879, died 1917); enrolled at Royal Military College at Woolwich, 1866-1868; commissioned as a lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers, transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery later in 1868 and to the Rifle Brigade (his father's own regiment) in 1869; army officer, serving in South Africa, Canada, Ireland, Egypt, and India; in 1874 he was created a royal peer, being titled as the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex; elected Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1901, re-elected until 1939) |
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