Melville Henry Massue

Massue was descended from a sister of [[Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway|Henri de Massue de Ruvigny]], a [[Huguenot]] aristocrat who emigrated to England in 1688 and became a prominent supporter of [[William III of England|William of Orange]].{{sfn|Massue|1909|pp=118-120}} He was born in London to Colonel Charles Henry Theodore Bruce de Ruvignes and Margaret Melville Moodie, the daughter of a Scottish laird.{{cite book|last=Massue|first=Melville Henry|date=1906|title=The Moodie Book|publisher=Privately printed|pages=98–99|url=https://archive.org/details/moodiebookbeing00ruvi/page/n147}} He succeeded his father as 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th Marquis of Raineval in 1883,{{sfn|Massue|1909|p=10}} though his right to these titles was disputed by the authors of ''[[The Complete Peerage]]''.{{cite book|last=Cokayne|first=G. E.|editor1-last=Gibbs|editor1-first=Vicary|editor2-last=Doubleday|editor2-first=H. A.|year=1926|title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant|volume=5|edition=2nd|place=London|publisher=St Catherine Press|page=613|url=https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n319}} In 1893, he married Rose Amalia Gaminara, with whom he had three children.

Massue was descended from a sister of [[Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway|Henri de Massue de Ruvigny]], a [[Huguenot]] aristocrat who emigrated to England in 1688 and became a prominent supporter of [[William III of England|William of Orange]].{{sfn|Massue|1909|pp=118-120}} He was born in London to Colonel Charles Henry Theodore Bruce de Ruvignes and Margaret Melville Moodie, the daughter of a Scottish laird.{{cite book|last=Massue|first=Melville Henry|date=1906|title=The Moodie Book|publisher=Privately printed|pages=98–99|url=https://archive.org/details/moodiebookbeing00ruvi/page/n147}} He succeeded his father as 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and 15th Marquis of Raineval in 1883,{{sfn|Massue|1909|p=10}} though his right to these titles was disputed by the authors of ''[[The Complete Peerage]]''.{{cite book|last=Cokayne|first=G. E.|editor1-last=Gibbs|editor1-first=Vicary|editor2-last=Doubleday|editor2-first=H. A.|year=1926|title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant|volume=5|edition=2nd|place=London|publisher=St Catherine Press|page=613|url=https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n319}} In 1893, he married Rose Amalia Gaminara, with whom he had three children.

Massue was an early member of the Jacobite [[Order of the White Rose (1886–1915)|Order of the White Rose]], though he found the sentimental nature of the order restrictive.{{cite book |first=Neil |last=Guthrie |title=The Material Culture of the Jacobites |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNwaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA155 |date=12 December 2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-04133-2 |pages=155}} In 1891, he co-founded the Legitimist Jacobite League with [[Herbert Vivian]] and [[Ruaraidh Erskine]] as a more political and radical Jacobite society.{{cite book |title=The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed |url=https://archive.org/details/shadowofsolomon00laur |url-access=registration |last=Gardner |first=Laurence |publisher=Weiser Books |date=31 March 2007|isbn=978-1-57863-404-0 }} He served as president from 1893 to 1894 and again from 1897 to 1899. The league was one of the principal organizations driving the [[Neo-Jacobite Revival]] of the 1890s. In 1898, he was made a knight of the [[Order of Charles III]] by the [[Carlos, Duke of Madrid|Duke of Madrid]], the [[Carlist]] claimant to the throne of Spain.

Massue was an early member of the Jacobite [[Order of the White Rose (1886–1915)|Order of the White Rose]], though he found the sentimental nature of the order restrictive.{{cite book |first=Neil |last=Guthrie |title=The Material Culture of the Jacobites |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNwaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA155 |date=12 December 2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-04133-2 |pages=155}} In 1891, he co-founded the Legitimist Jacobite League with [[Herbert Vivian]] and [[Ruaraidh Erskine]] as a more political and radical Jacobite society.{{cite book |title=The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed |url=https://archive.org/details/shadowofsolomon00laur |url-access=registration |last=Gardner |first=Laurence |publisher=Weiser Books |date=31 March 2007|isbn=978-1-57863-404-0 }} He served as president from 1893 to 1894 and again from 1897 to 1899. The league was one of the principal organizations driving the [[Neo-Jacobite Revival]] of the 1890s. In 1898, he was made a knight of the [[Order of Charles III]] by the [[prince Carlos, Duke of Madrid|Duke of Madrid]], the [[Carlist]] claimant to the throne of Spain.

Massue was a prolific author of genealogical works, including his comprehensive, albeit unreliable, account of the [[Jacobite peerage]] which was published in 1904. He was a committed member of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1902.{{cite book|editor-last1=Addison|editor-first1=Henry Robert|display-editors=etal|title=Who's Who|year=1903|location=London|publisher=A. & C. Black|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA1204}} He died in a London nursing home and was succeeded by his second son, Charles, "Comte de la Caillemotte", his first son having died unexpectedly shortly before the [[World War I|First World War]].''[[The Times]]'' dated 7 October 1921, p. 9, col. C.

Massue was a prolific author of genealogical works, including his comprehensive, albeit unreliable, account of the [[Jacobite peerage]] which was published in 1904. He was a committed member of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1902.{{cite book|editor-last1=Addison|editor-first1=Henry Robert|display-editors=etal|title=Who's Who|year=1903|location=London|publisher=A. & C. Black|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA1204}} He died in a London nursing home and was succeeded by his second son, Charles, "Comte de la Caillemotte", his first son having died unexpectedly shortly before the [[World War I|First World War]].''[[The Times]]'' dated 7 October 1921, p. 9, col. C.