The New International Encyclopædia/Connaught, Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of

CONNAUGHT, Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of, Prince of the United Kingdom (1850—). The third son of Queen Victoria. He entered the Military Academy at Woolwich in 1866, and in 1880 became a general of brigade. He was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex in 1874, and took his seat in the House of Lords. In 1879 he married Princess Margaret Louise, grandniece of the German Emperor William I. He served in Egypt in 1882, became a general in 1893, and from 1893 to 1898 was in charge of the permanent camp at Aldershot. In 1896 he and his wife represented Queen Victoria at the coronation of the Czar Nicholas II. He succeeded Lord Roberts as commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland in January, 1900, and in the following year became commander of the Third Army Corps.