Edward Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough

Law was born on 9 May 1841. He was the son of Hon. Henry Spencer Law and Dorothea Anne Rochfort. His younger brother was Col. Cecil Henry Law, who commanded the 2nd battalion Dorsetshire Regiment during the Second Boer War in South Africa.^[1]

His father was the fifth son of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, and the former Anne Towry. His mother was the eldest daughter of Col. John Staunton Rochfort, of Clogrennane Castle, and the former Mary Burgh.^[1]

Law was educated at Charterhouse and entered the Royal Navy in 1854 aged just 13.^[2]

Law was a naval cadet with HMS Colossus, serving in the Baltic during the Crimean War in 1855 and was awarded the Baltic Medal. He became a sub-lieutenant in 1860 and a lieutenant in 1861, and in 1867 he passed as an interpreter in French. During the American Civil War, he was serving on the North America and West Indies Station. He transferred to the frigate HMS Highflyer, and was with her in China during the Second Opium War (1859–1861) and was awarded the Second China War Medal. In 1873, he was lieutenant commanding HMS Coquette, and saw service during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War and was awarded the Ashanti Medal. He retired as commander later in 1873.^[1][3]

On 19 December 1906 in London, Lord Ellenborough married Hermione Octavia Croghan Schenley (c. 1859–1942), a daughter of Mary Elizabeth Croghan and the late Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley (former MP for Dartmouth), of Pittsburgh, and ward of Andrew Carnegie,^[5] and they lived at Windlesham Court in Surrey.^[2] Before the marriage, the 66 year old had "long been regarded as a confirmed bachelor."^[6]

Lord Ellenborough died in 1915 and was succeeded by his brother Cecil, who became the 6th Baron Ellenborough.^[2]