Archibald Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Wharncliffe


Archibald Ralph Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Wharncliffe was an English soldier, peer, and landowner, a member of the House of Lords.
The son of Francis John Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Wharncliff, by his marriage to Ellen Gallwey, the young Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Life Guards. He was aide-de-camp to Lord Buxton, Governor-General of South Africa, between 1915 and 1916, then saw active service during the First World War, rising to the rank of Captain. On 8 May 1926, his father died and he succeeded as Earl of Wharncliffe and Viscount Carlton and as owner of the Wortley Hall estate in Yorkshire.
Wharncliffe was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
During the Second World War, Wortley Hall was requisitioned for use by the British Army and deteriorated. In 1950, Wharncliffe sold it to be used as a training college.
On 24 March 1918, he married Lady Maud Lillian Elfreda Mary Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, a daughter of William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, and Lady Maud Frederica Elizabeth Dundas, whose father was Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland. Their children were: