the procession for the funeral of King George V in January 1936 and commanded the troops at the procession for the coronation of King George VI on 12 May 1937. During the Second World War he served as Commanding Officer of the Hertfordshire Local Defence Volunteers. He died at the London Clinic in Devonshire Place in London on 28 August 1946. He was buried in the family plot at the churchyard in Ayot St Lawrence, where a seven-foot-tall red granite cross is his headstone. His is the churchyard's only burial registered as Commonwealth war grave. Marriage and family He married on 1 August 1893 to Caroline Inez Crawley (1870–1920), daughter of George Baden Crawley and Eliza Inez Hulbert, at Digswell Church in Digswell, Hertfordshire. She predeceased her husband; they had no children. He married, secondly, on 27 November 1922 to Lady Hester Joan Byng, daughter of Reverend Francis Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford and Emily Georgina Kerr, at St. Mark's Church in North Audley Street, Mayfair, London. His second wife was the niece of his army colleague Field Marshal Byng, who was a younger half-brother of the 5th Earl of Strafford. Hester, Countess of Cavan, would, in 1927, be appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The couple had two daughters: Lady Elizabeth Mary Lambart (16 October 1924 – 8 December 2016), married in 1949 to Mark Frederic Kerr Longman, President of the Longman Group Ltd, had issue. She was in 1947 one of the eight bridesmaids in Princess Elizabeth's marriage to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. Her granddaughter is Rose Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley. Lady Joanna Lambart As he had no son, the 10th Earl was succeeded by his brother, Horace. References External links The Papers of Field Marshal Lord Cavan held at Churchill Archives Centre Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1865–1946), Field Marshal (National Portrait Gallery, 16 portraits) |- |- 1865 births 1946 deaths People from Ayot St Lawrence Burials at Ayot St Lawrence Military personnel from London People educated at Eton College Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Deputy Lieutenants of Hertfordshire Irish representative peers Knights of St Patrick Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Grand