Sir Reginald Wolseley, 10th Baronet
British baronet
Sir Reginald Beatty Wolseley, 10th Baronet (31 January 1872 – 10 July 1933), known as Dick Wolseley, was an Anglo-Irish Baronet of Mount Wolseley in County Carlow, Ireland. He left Britain as a young man, became an elevator operator at a hotel in Waterloo, Iowa, and preferred to remain an obscure exile even after succeeding to the title.
Early years
Reginald Beatty Wolseley was born on 31 January 1872 in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, the son of Cadwallader Brooke Wolseley (1845–1884), a physician and surgeon, and Katie Maria (née Beatty). His grandfather was the Ven. Cadwallader Wolseley, Archdeacon of Glendalough.
Wolseley grew up in a household of servants and maids in Northwich, Cheshire, England, was a cousin of Admiral Earl Beatty, and was educated privately at Bedford Modern School. He was the three-times great-grandson of William Wolseley, who was the third son of the first baronet. He had three sisters: Winifred, Ethel and Honoria, who married Col. William Davenport Crawley Kelly.
America
The young Wolseley emigrated to the United States in 1894, eventually becoming an elevator operator in a hotel in Waterloo, Iowa.
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