Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Keppel
(1831-1876)
7 November 1860

Volume 2, page 81, sitting number 1623.

Born on 25 August 1831, Frederick Charles Keppel was the son of Reverend William Arnold Walpole Keppel and Frances Georgiana Sophia née Marsham. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Granadier Guards and held the office of Equerry to the Prince of Wales.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Charles Keppel never married. He died at Haynford in Norfolk on 2 March 1876 at the age of 44, leaving an estate valued at £9000. 

A short obituary appeared in the Bury and Norwich Post (7 March 1876): 'We have to announce the death of Lieut.-Colonel Frederck Charles Keppel, late of the Grenadier Guards, and for some years Equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who died at the Rectory, Haynford, Norfolk, on Thursday last, after a lingering illness. He resigned in 1873 his appointment in the Prince of Wales's Household, and retired from the army owing to declining health. Lieut.-Colonel Keppel was the eldest son of the Rev. Wm. Arnold Walpole Keppel of Lexham Hall, Norfolk, registrar of the diocese of Exeter, and rector of Haynford, by his wife, Frances Sophia Georgiana, eldest daughter of the late Mr Robert Marsham, of Stratton Strawless. He was in his 45th year.'