George Coventry, 10th Earl of Coventry

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The Right Honourable The Earl of Coventry
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 13 March 1930 –27 May 1940 Hereditary Peerage
	National Liberal	John Hinds	12,530	41.9	N/A
	Unionist	George Coventry	8,805	29.4	N/A
	National Farmers' Union	Daniel Johns	4,775	15.9	N/A
	Liberal	H. Llewelyn-Williams	3,847	12.8	N/A
Majority			3,725	12.5	N/A
Turnout			29,957	82.7	N/A
Registered electors			36,213
	National Liberal gain from Liberal

Military service

Coventry was a Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, which was part of the original Expeditionary Force sent to France in September 1939. ^[4] His regiment was subsequently evacuated during the retreat from Dunkirk; Coventry was killed in action ^[5] 27 May 1940 at La Bassée, during the Battle of Dunkirk which preceded it. He is buried in the communal cemetery at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée. ^[5]

A memorial service was held at Croome Church in Worcester on 21 July 1940. ^[6]

Family and personal life

He married the Honourable Nesta Donne Philipps in September 1921; they had four children. ^[1] His youngest child, also named George William Coventry and subsequently 11th Earl of Coventry was born at Croome Court on 25 January 1934. ^[7] The 10th earl's daughters were Anne Donne, Joan Blanche, and Maria Alice Coventry. ^[2]

In 1932, he was appointed the Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Worcestershire. ^[8]

He served as a company director of the London and Thames Haven Oil Wharves Limited. ^[9]

Coventry enjoyed hunting and was the Master of the Carmarthenshire Hounds, the Hawkstone Hounds as well as the Croome Hounds. ^[3]

References

1. Hammond, P.W., ed., The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Vol. XIV (Stroud, 1998), 212.
2. "Person Page".
3. "Deaths". The Times. No. 48669. 16 July 1940.
4. "Worcestershire Regiment - Famous Units - Research - National Army Museum, London". Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
5. "Lieut. Earl George William Reginal Victor COVENTRY (7903) - Worcestershire Regiment".
6. "Deaths". The Times. No. 48675. 23 July 1940.
7. "The Earl of Coventry".
8. "Court Circular". The Times. No. 46262. 12 October 1932.
9. "London & Thames Haven Oil Wharves". The Times. No. 46401.

Peerage of England
Preceded by George Coventry	Earl of Coventry 1930–1940	Succeeded by George William Coventry