George Hugh Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth, (31 October 1919 – 7 March 2022), was a British peer and landowner. His subsidiary titles were 9th Baron Boscawen-Rose and 16th Baron le Despencer (created in 1264 in the Peerage of England). An officer in the Coldstream Guards, he was Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall from 1977 to 1994.
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Life
Boscawen was the second son of Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth, by his marriage to Mary Margaret Desiree, daughter of Hon. Frederick George Lindley Meynell (née Wood; in 1905 he assumed part of the married name of his sister, Emily Meynell Ingram, on inheriting estates from her), High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1910, son of the politician Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax. Mary's mother, Lady Mary Susan Felice, was a daughter of the art collector and historian Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
Like his younger brother Robert, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and from 1939 to 1946 served in the Coldstream Guards. Commissioned a second lieutenant on 2 November 1940, he was promoted war-substantive lieutenant on 2 May 1942. On 21 May 1940, Boscawen's elder brother, Hon. Evelyn Frederick Vere Boscawen, also a Coldstream Guards officer, was killed in action, leaving him as heir to the family titles and estates. During the Second World War he saw active service in Italy, for which he was mentioned in dispatches.
In 1962, he succeeded as Viscount Falmouth on the death of his father. In 1968, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall, then in 1977 became the county's Lord Lieutenant, retiring in 1994 on reaching the age of seventy-five.