daughter and co-heiress, who married William Lloyd Baxendale, Coldstream Guards, of Uckfield, Sussex, and had issue. Death and succession Fortescue died on his 70th birthday in June 1958, four days after the death of his wife, whose funeral he was too ill to attend. As his only son and heir apparent, Lord Ebrington, had been killed in action at the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, he left no male issue, and was therefore succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Denzil Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue (1893–1977), who also inherited Ebrington Manor in Gloucestershire, thenceforth the principal seat of the Earls Fortescue. Although the title passed to his brother on his death, the 5th Earl left his principal and grandest seat, Castle Hill, Filleigh in North Devon, to his elder surviving daughter, Lady Margaret Fortescue (1923–2013). Castle Hill is now the home of her daughter Eleanor, Countess of Arran (née van Cutsem) and her husband Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran. The 5th Earl Fortescue left his secondary Devon seat, Weare Giffard Hall, to his younger daughter Lady Elizabeth Baxendale (born 1926), who sold it in 1960. References External links |- |- |- |- |- |- 1888 births 1958 deaths British Army personnel of World War II British Army personnel of World War I Companions of the Order of the Bath Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Fortescue,5 Hugh,5 Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms Knights of the Garter Lord-Lieutenants of Devon Military personnel from London Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939 Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 Ministers in the Eden government, 1955–1957 Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955 Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Eton College Recipients of the Military Cross Royal Scots Greys officers Royal Corps of Signals officers Royal Devon Yeomanry officers Honourable Artillery Company officers