Personal Life
Bonaparte-Wyse was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Knight of Malta, and a CBE and Companion of the Order of the Bath. In 1896 he married Mariya de Chripunov, the daughter of a Russian aristocrat; the couple had had three children, two daughters and a son, who served in the Free French Navy during World War II.
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