Granville Roland Fortescue

Granville Roland Fortescue

Granville Roland Fortescue (1875-1952) was an American soldier, a Rough Rider serving with his cousin, Col. Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba, a presidential aide in the first Roosevelt administration and later, a journalist and war correspondent for the London "Standard" during the Rif War in 1920 Spanish Morocco. He wrote for the London "Daily Telegraph" during World War ISpinzia, Raymond E. (2006). "Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates And Their Country Homes," [http://spinzialongislandestates.com/longIslandsample2.pdf sample excerpt, p. 2.] ] and during the Spanish Civil War. [Price, Warren C. (1999). [http://books.google.com/books?id=ncDF8wuZvK8C&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=Front+Line+and+Deadline:+The+Experiences+of+a+War+Correspondent&source=web&ots=kLfFMxhip0&sig=eQFmKzZq61vT57P7YS8hZO75rB0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA90,M1 "Literature of Journalism," p. 90.] ]

Family

Fortescue was the stepson of U.S. Congressman Robert Roosevelt (1829-1906),Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell. "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress."] who was the brother of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., the uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt and the great-uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt remarried after the death of his first wife; and he adopted the three children of Marion Theresa "Minnie" O'Shea Fortescue. These siblings were Granville, Kenyon, and Maud.Spinzia, Raymond E. [http://www.oysterbayhistory.org/freeres.html "These Other Roosevelts: The Fortescues,"] Oyster Bay Historical Society "Freeholder Magazine." 2006; [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B07E5DB1E3EE733A25753C2A9609C946797D6CF "Robert B. Roosevelt's Will; Testator's Three Children Inherit Most of the Large Estate,"] "New York Times." June 20, 1906.]

Fortescue's undergraduate education began at Yale College; then he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. His college years were cut short when he volunteered in 1898 for the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. He completed his education when he graduated from the Army Staff College in 1904.Renehan, Edward J. [http://hnn.us/articles/1877.html "A Secret Roosevelt,"] "History News Network." February 22, 2003.]

In 1910, Captain "Rolly" Fortescue married Grace Hubbard Fortescue (née Grace Hubbard Bell) (1883-1979), a niece of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell and an heir to the Bell Telephone Company fortune. The wedding party included Captain Archibald Butt, who served with the groom in the White House as a Presidential aide. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04EFD61139E333A2575AC2A9639C946196D6CF "Society at Home and Abroad: The Fortescue-Bell Wedding in Washington,"] "New York Times." May 29, 1910.]

The couple had two daughters. Mrs. Fortescue later became embroiled in the notorious 1932 murder trial in Hawaii, known popularly at the time as the "Massie Affair". Afterwards, she returned to a quiet life with her husband as they moved seasonally between family homes on Long Island and in Palm Beach.

Career

Fortescue was a Rough Rider wounded at San Juan Hill in Cuba and serving in the Phillipines during the Spanish-American War, a U.S. military attaché in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, and an artillery officer during World War I.

His final resting place is in Arlington National Cemetery,Arlington National Cemetery: [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/fortesc.htm Granville Roland Foretscue] ] the only Roosevelt to be buried there.

elected work

His journalism experience led to further writing:
* 1914 -- "At the Front with Three Allies: My adventures in the Great War." London: A. Melrose, Ltd.. [New York Public Library. (1915). [http://books.google.com/books?id=Uob7MIjq1woC&pg=PA618&dq=At+the+Front+with+Three+Allies:+My+adventures+in+the+Great+War&client=firefox-a "Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations," v.19 no.2, p. 618.] ]
* 1915 -- [http://books.google.com/books?id=1F9JAAAAMAAJ&q=Russia,+the+Balkans+and+the+Dardanelles&dq=Russia,+the+Balkans+and+the+Dardanelles&lr=&client=firefox-a&pgis=1 "Russia, the Balkans and the Dardanelles."] London: A. Melrose, Ltd. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/1562062 OCLC: 1562062]
* 1915 -- [http://books.google.com/books?id=sBIwGwAACAAJ&dq=What+of+the+Dardanelles%3F++An+Analysis&lr=&client=firefox-a "What of the Dardanelles? An Analysis."] London: Hodder and Stoughton. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/2736904 OCLC: 2736904]
* 1916 -- [http://books.google.com/books?id=xNhEAAAAIAAJ&dq=forearmed:+How+to+Build+a+Citizen+Army&lr=&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "Fore-armed: How to Build a Citizen Army."] Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/406647 OCLC: 406647]
* 1917 -- [http://books.google.com/books?id=vBFIAAAAIAAJ&dq=France+Bears+the+Burden&lr=&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "France Bears the Burden."] New York: MacMillan. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/1183757 OCLC: 1183757]
* 1937 -- [http://books.google.com/books?id=f-FCAAAAIAAJ&q=Front+Line+and+Deadline:+The+Experiences+of+a+War+Correspondent&dq=Front+Line+and+Deadline:+The+Experiences+of+a+War+Correspondent&lr=&client=firefox-a&pgis=1 "Front Line and Deadline: The Experiences of a War Correspondent."] New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/987696 OCLC: 987696]

Honors

* Purple Heart, wounded in foot at San Juan Hill, Cuba, July 1898; wounded at Montfaucon d'Argonne in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 1918.
* Distinguished Service Cross.
* World War I Victory Medal
* Spanish Campaign Medal
* Philippine Insurrection War Medal
* Order of the Rising Sun, Japan.
* Russo-Japanese War Medal, Japan.

Notes

References

* Spinzia, Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia. (2006). [http://books.google.com/books?id=9-CE3gQcnsMC&dq=Long+Island%27s+Prominent+North+Shore+Families:+Their+States+and+Their+Country+Homes&lr=&client=firefox-a "Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates And Their Country Homes."] College Station, Texas: [http://www.virtualbookworm.com/ Virtualbookworm.] 10-ISBN 1-589-39785-1; 13-ISBN 978-1-589-39785-9; 10-ISBN 1-589-39786-X; 13-ISBN 978-1-589-39786-6 [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/74029682 OCLC: 74029682]
* Stannard, David. [http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Oct/14/op/op03a.html "The Massie case: Injustice and courage,"] "The Honolulu Advertiser". October 14, 2001.

External links

* PBS The American Experience: [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/massie/peopleevents/p_fortescue.html "The Massie Affair"] .


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