GB, 5th Earl
GB, 5th Earl, ref GDP/12 The Great Diary Project holds ten volumes of diaries belonging to GB, 5th Earl (1860-1949) covering ten of the years between 1903 and 1929. The 5th Earl was the grandson of GB, 3rd Earl, who passed down the order for the disastrous charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War in 1854, and the grandfather of RB, 7th Earl, who disappeared after the murder of his children’s nanny in 1974. The Diarist knew both his notorious grandfather and grandson: the 3rd Earl died in 1888 when the Diarist was 27 and, when the Diarist [...]