Notes for Henry Herbert KITCHENER, 3RD EARL KITCHENER OF KARTOUM AND OF BROOME TD DL
Major Henry Herbert Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener
DL TD (born 24 February 1919), styled Viscount Broome from 1928 to 1937, is a
British peer. He is the son of Captain Henry Franklin Chevallier Kitchener, Viscount Broome, only son of
Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener. His great-uncle was the renowned military commander
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener.
He was educated at
Winchester and
Trinity College, Cambridge. He succeeded his grandfather in the earldom on 27 March 1937. In 1937, he was a
Page of Honour to King
George VI at his coronation. Lord Kitchener is also a retired
Major in the
Royal Corps of Signals and has been President of the Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund since 1950. In 1972, he served as
Deputy Lieutenant of
Cheshire. Like his uncle before him, he is an English
Freemason. In 2005, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the
Royal Confraternity of Sao Teotonio.
Lord Kitchener is unmarried, and, as there is no one in remainder, the title Earl Kitchener will become extinct on his death. His niece, Emma Joy Kitchener, is a
lady-in-waiting to
Princess Michael of Kent and the wife of actor
Julian Fellowes.