Rothesay Nicholas Montagu Stuart Wortley,[note 1] MC (9 January 1892 – 29 December 1926) was a British World War I soldier, Royal Flying Corps fighter pilot and a journalist and author.
[3] Nicholas Rothesay Montagu Stuart-Wortley was born at Highcliffe Castle, Hampshire (now in Dorset, on 9 January 1892, the first child and only son of Major-General the Honourable Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, and his wife Violet (née Guthrie).
[4] On 5 August 1914, the day after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, Stuart-Wortley was appointed an aide-de-camp to serve on the personal staff of his father, General Officer Commanding of the 46th (North Midland) Division.
[3][9] He was awarded the Military Cross, which was gazetted on 19 April 1918, the citation reading: He was appointed as Squadron Commander with the temporary rank of major on 1 July 1918,[11] with No.44 Training Depot Station at RAF Bicester[12] until September 1918.
[14] In 1919 Stuart Wortley married the Canadian opera singer Marie-Louise Martin,[1] (known professionally as Louise Edvina)[15] and worked as an aviation journalist until his death in the south of France from diabetes on 29 December 1926 at the age of 34.