Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth


Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, was a British peer and British Army officer.

Military career

Boscawen was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards: he played cricket for the Household Brigade and then for the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882 and, having been promoted to colonel in 1886, he also took part in the Nile Expedition between 1894 and 1895. He was promoted to major-general in 1898 and became Assistant Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ireland in 1900. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Kent on 8 January 1900, and of Cornwall on 19 March. He retired from the army on 9 August 1902.
Boscawen succeeded to the title of 7th Viscount Falmouth on 6 November 1889.

Family

He married Hon. Kathleen Douglas-Pennant on 19 October 1886. Their daughter, Kathleen Pamela Mary Corona, the actress Pamela Carme, married theatrical manager Henry Sherek.
According to Lady Randolph Churchill's sisters, he could have had a liaison with her and so have been the biological father of John Strange Spencer-Churchill, the younger brother of former Prime minister Winston Churchill.