Melville Henry Massue

Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvignés
Marquis of Ruvigny and of Raineval
Spouse(s)	Rose Amalia Gaminara
Issue
Count Southwell Maynard Gabriel Henry Philip Valeran d'Ailly Count Charles Rupert Wriothesley Douglas Townsend Morris Countess Rachel Melville Madelaine Margaret Moyra Frances Helen (1894-?)
Noble family	de Massue de Ruvignés
Father	Colonel C. H. T. B. de Massue
Mother	Margaret Melville Moodie
Born	25 April 1868 London
Died	6 October 1921 London

Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvignés, 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th of Raineval (25 April 1868 - 6 October 1921), 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th of Raineval, president of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland, a genealogist, and author.^[1]

Biography

He was born in London, 25 April 1868 to Colonel Charles Henry Theodore Bruce de Massue de Ruvignés, soi-disant 8th Marquis of Ruvigny and 14th of Raineval, a native of Switzerland, and Margaret Melville, daughter of George Moodie, of Cocklaw and Dunbog in Fife, Scotland.^[2]

On 30 August 1893 he married Rose Amalia Gaminara, daughter of Poncrazio Gaminara of Tumaco, Colombia, by his wife, Doña Amalia Cabezas, daughter of Don Felipe Cabezas, LL.D. of the University of Quito, Ecuador.^[3]

Melville was President of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland 1893-1894 and again in 1897. He was made a Knight of the Order of Charles III in 1898 by the Spanish Carlist claimant Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, known as "Carlos VII".

He was a prolific author of genealogical works, one of the leaders of the Neo-Jacobite movement, and a committed member of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1902.^[4] He died at a nursing home in London on 6 October 1921 and was succeeded by his second son, Charles, Comte de la Caillemotte, his first son having died unexpectedly shortly before the first World War.^[5]

Publications

• Moutray of Seafield and Roscobie, now of Favour Royal, Co. Tyrone: an Historical and Genealogical memoir of the family in Scotland, England, Ireland and America
• The Family of Hicks (London: Privately Printed, 1902)
• The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, 5 vols. (London, 1903–1911)
• The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour (Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904)
• Morris of Ballybeggan and Castle Morris (s.l.: Privately Printed, 1904)
• The Moodie Book: Being an Account of the Families of Melsetter, Muir, Cocklaw, Blairhill, Bryanton, Gilchorn, Pitmuies, Arbekie, Masterton, etc., etc. (s.l.: Privately Printed, 1906)
• The Nobilities of Europe (London: Melville and Company, 1909)
• The Legitimist Kalender for the year of our Lord 1910 (London: The Forget-Me-Not Royalist Club, 1910)
• The Titled Nobility of Europe: an international peerage (London: Harrison & Sons, 1914)
• The Roll of Honour: a biographical record of all members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who have fallen in the war, 2 vols. (London: The Standard Art Book Co., Ltd., 1916)

References

1. ^ Ruvigny's grandfather Captain Lloyd Henry de Ruvynes, an Irishman of French origin, changed his name to "de Massue de Ruvignés", because of his descent from a daughter of Henry de Massue, 1st Marquis de Ruvigny et de Raineval
2. ^ 1881 U.K. Census, North Stoke, Oxfordshire, England, 1295/82, p. 3.
3. ^ Ruvigny, Marquis of (1906). The Moodie Book. http://www.archive.org/stream/moodiebookbeinga00ruvi#page/n253/mode/2up/search/Ruvigny. 
4. ^ Who is who. 1903. http://books.google.com/books?id=vWIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA1204&dq=%22Melville+Amadeus+Henry+Douglas+Heddle%22&ei=lc7kSbb3BozMlQTaqNDiBA. 
5. ^ The Times, 7 Oct 1921, p. 9, col. C

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Name	Ruvigny And Raineval, Melville Amedeus Henry Douglas Heddle De La Caillemotte De Massue De Ruvigny, 9th Marquis
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Date of birth	25 April 1868
Place of birth	London
Date of death	6 October 1921
Place of death	London