Lord Edward Gleichen

Born Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen in 1863, he was the only son of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Laura Seymour. He served in the British Army and became a major-general, and he is often referred to as Lord Gleichen or Count Gleichen.

His career included active service and court appointments, and he later wrote about several of those experiences in books such as With the Camel Corps up the Nile, With the Mission to Menelik, The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade, and A Guardsman's Memories. He also contributed the article on Abyssinia to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Gleichen had strong artistic interests as well as military ones. He was known as a sculptor and wrote London's Open Air Statuary, a reflection of his interest in public art and monuments. He died in 1937.