Ivo Branch

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Ivo Branch
AllegianceFlag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
BranchFlag of the British Army.svg  British Army
Service years1872-1898
Rank Brigadier
Unit 1st Regiment of Life Guards
Commands Cavalry Division
Conflicts
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Alma mater University College, Oxford
Relations

Ivo William Ulick Fennell Branch CB CVO (b. 1851; d. 1928) was a British Army officer.

Life and military career

Educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, Branch was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in March 1872. [1]

Branch served as aide-de-camp to George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, 1874-77. [1] His particularly undistinguished military career included being criticised for 'rashness' and 'absent-minded, uncalculating enthusiasm' in the face of the enemy during the British occupation of Egypt. [2] [3] His reputation was besmirched by accusations of bisexuality. [4] [5] Branch was one of several senior army officers implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal in 1889, accused of being protected by his privilege. [2] [6]

Nevertheless, he was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1898. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Obituary, The Times , 16 May 1928
  2. 1 2 "The Profligate Branch: Ivo Branch and His Excess". The Journal of Glamorgan History. 6 (1): 16. 2008
  3. ↑ "Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives - King's Collections / Archive Catalogues". archives.kingscollections.org. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
  4. ↑ "Branch, Ivo". Glamorgan Family History Society Journal. 33: 16. 2007."
  5. 1 2 Obituary: Brigadier Ivo Branch The Daily Telegraph , 17 May 1928
  6. ↑ Heffer, Simon, The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 , (London: Penguin Random House, 2017)
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