His elder brother, Charles, Lord Ossulton, the heir apparent, died, unmarried, of cholera in India on 29 June 1879, while serving with the Rifle Brigade.

[4] His maternal grandparents were George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester and the former Millicent Sparrow (a granddaughter of Arthur Acheson, 1st Earl of Gosford).

[7] Lord Tankerville made American headlines in January 1912 when he placed his 14-year-old son (and eventual successor) in a Boston school, saying he wanted him to be "educated in a world where every one worked.

"[8] Lord Tankerville, who for a time was a clown in the circus, met his future wife, Leonora Sophia van Marter (d. 1949), when he turned a somersault over a sofa in a New York drawing-room, nearly falling into her lap.

[2] Prior to their marriage, Leonora, a daughter of Dr. James Gilbert van Marter, had been a music teacher in New York.