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Eric Neville Geijer (1894–1941) was a decorated Guards officer, royal herald, and genealogist. He was the second son of the Swedish diplomat Carl Emmanuel de Geijer and his English wife, Lila Lucy, née White (daughter of William Arthur White). He was a cadet in the Wellington College Contingent of the Officer Training Corps. In 1914 he was naturalized as a subject of the United Kingdom,〔(Certificate reference ) in The National Archives, Kew, accessed 3 May 2010.〕 serving in the British Army during the First World War. Initially a second lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment, from February 1917 he was attached to the Grenadier Guards, serving with distinction.〔Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, ''The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918'', (vol. 3 )〕 Geijer was awarded the Military Cross in 1918, for leading a patrol that entered an enemy position under heavy machine-gun fire, and briefly attained the rank of acting captain. On 19 October 1926 he was appointed to the College of Arms as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant.〔''Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry'', 15th edition (1937), vol. 1, p. xxx.〕 In 1929 he became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He was a trustee of the Catholic Record Society.〔(Catholic Record Society publications: Records series ), vol. 40, 1943.〕 He died intestate on 14 January 1941. At the time of his death, his address was Little Bowstridge, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. ==Publications== *''The Parish Register of Woodsford, Co. Dorset. Baptisms 1678-1812. Marriages 1696-1826. Burials 1678-1811''. (Society of Genealogists, Transcripts of Parish Registers, 1939). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Neville Geijer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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