Arthur Edward Joseph Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough OBE TD (30 June 1884 – 27 August 1927)[1] was a British peer.
Arthur Noel was the son of Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough and his wife Mary Elizabeth Dease, (her sister was the writer Alice Dease), and a great-great-grandson of King William IV.
In 1903 Viscount Campden was commissioned in the Territorial Army Reserve in the Gloucestershire Regiment[2] and fought in France in the First World War as a major.
Gainsborough married Alice Mary Eyre on 10 November 1915.
They had three children:[5] Gainsborough died on 27 August 1927, aged 43 and was succeeded in the earldom and other titles by his elder son, Anthony.