William Luard

Admiral Sir William Garnham Luard, KCB (7 April 1820 – 19 May 1910) was a British Royal Navy officer.He served extensively and saw action in the South China Sea, for which he was recognized in dispatches and decorated for gallantry and bravery several times including being named Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).[4] Luard married Charlotte Du Cane (an anglicization of the original French surname 'Du Quesne') in 1858, with whom he had 13 children.[4] She was from another French Huguenot family (see Jean Du Quesne, the elder and descendants), with landed estates at Braxted Park and Coggeshall.[6][7] A staunch Liberal and supporter of Prime Minister William Gladstone, Luard retired to his estate in Essex[8] where he served as a justice of the peace and as an active member of the court of Quarter Sessions.
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