Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington

Captain Napier George Henry Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington (1 November 1896 – 17 September 1940) was a British peer, the son of Humphrey Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington.

He was born in November 1896 in St Marylebone district of London. He succeeded to the Barony on 30 July 1919 on the death of his father. He owned the Crichel House estate in Dorset.

He married Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, on 27 November 1928. They had one child: Hon. Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt (b. 1929, d. 2010).^[1]

Alington may well be most notable for having dated Tallulah Bankhead in the 1920s. Alington was described as "well cultivated, bisexual, with sensuous, meaty lips, a distant, antic charm, a history of mysterious disappearances, and a streak of cruelty."^[2] His bisexuality was well known.^[3]

As he had no male heir, on his death, the title became extinct. The Crichel estate passed to his daughter Mary, who was married to Commander George Martin.

War Service

In the first World War, he was a Captain in the RAF. In the second World War, he was commissioned 02.07.1940 as an RAFVR officer in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch^[4] and was posted to Cairo, possibly serving as a staff officer at HQ Middle East. He died 16 Sept 1940 in Cairo on active service of a short illness after pneumonia, and is buried in the New British Protestant Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt, plot E.221-222^[5]

References

1. ^ [1], Obituary, The Times, 8th March 2010
2. ^ DAH-LING The strange case of Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Gottlieb, The New Yorker, May 16, 2005
3. ^ Moffat, Ivan; Lambert, Gavin (2004), The Ivan Moffat File: Life Among the Beautiful and Damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood, Pantheon Books, p. 107, ISBN 0375422471 
4. ^ [2]
5. ^ CWGC entry

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Humphrey Sturt	Baron Alington 1919–1940	Succeeded by title extinct.

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Name	Alington, Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron
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Date of birth	1 November 1896
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Date of death	17 September 1940
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