[3] In May 1891, his father and two servants died from smoke inhalation from a fire at his London residence.
William Otter, Bishop of Chichester) and the English Whig politician John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly who served in Lord John Russell's first administration as Solicitor-General and later as Attorney-General.
[3] From 1886 to 1888, he was a Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifles, followed by a Captain of the Coldstream Guards in 1898.
[3] On 3 August 1897, Lord Romilly was married to Violet Edith Grey-Egerton (1870–1906) in London.
She was the only daughter of Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 11th Baronet of Oulton Park and the former Hon.