James Caulfeild, 7th Viscount Charlemont

Colonel James Alfred Caulfeild, 7th Viscount Charlemont DL JP CB (20 March 1830 – 4 July 1913) was an Irish Peer and soldier.

James Alfred Caulfeild was born on 20 March 1830 at Loy House in Cookstown, County Tyrone.

[2] His younger brother, Marcus Piers Francis Caulfeild, was a Major in the Mid-Ulster Artillery Militia.

[1] At age 18, he entered the Army and fought with the Coldstream Guards in the Crimean War, becoming a captain.

[5] He held the office of Usher of the Black Rod of the Order of St Patrick between February 1879 and 1913.

[3] Through his daughter Constance, he was a grandfather of four, including Thomas Uchter Knox, Viscount Northland (father of Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly),[11] and Lady Constance Gaskell, a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937 to 1953 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953 to 1960.