British nobleman and soldier (1882–1979)
Colonel Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle, (28 February 1882 – 14 July 1979) was a British nobleman and soldier, styled Viscount Bury from 1894 to 1942.
Life.
Keppel was the eldest son of Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle, and his wife, Lady Gertrude Egerton. He was educated at Eton from 1895 to 1899.
Lord Bury was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery on 28 March 1900, and promoted to a lieutenant in that regiment on 25 August 1900. This was a Royal Artillery Militia regiment, and the following year he transferred to the regular army as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 4 May 1901. He was seconded for staff service at the end of 1904, and appointed aide-de-camp (ADC) to Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada. He was again seconded for staff service in May 1907 and appointed extra ADC to Sir H. J. Goold-Adams, Lieutenant-Governor Orange River Colony.
Bury was promoted to captain in May 1910 and retired to the Special Reserve in 1912.
Bury fought with the Scots Guards during World War I. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk in January 1916. He was awarded the Military Cross in June 1916. He was promoted temporary Major while commanding a Guards machine gun company and later served as a Machine Gun Corps instructor. After the war, Bury was a member of the London County Council in 1919.
He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative for Altrincham in 1910.
In 1924, he was made brevet colonel of 108th Field Brigade, Norfolk and Suffolk Yeomanry. 
He succeeded his father as Earl of Albemarle in 1942. Albemarle was Vice-Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1940 to 1944, and a member of Norfolk County Council in 1943.
He died in 1979 and was succeeded as Earl of Albemarle by his grandson Rufus: his eldest son, Derek Viscount Bury, had died in 1968.
Family.
Lord Bury married, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster on 9 June 1909, Lady Judith Sydney Myee Wynn-Carrington, daughter of Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire. They had five children before her death in 1928:
He married Diana Grove (1909–2013) on 24 February 1931 at Scots Church, Chelsea. They had one daughter:
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