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William Coutts Keppel Viscount Bury 7th Earl of Albemarle KCMG PC 1832 – 1894 was a British soldier and politician, the son of George Thomas Keppel 6th Earl of Albemarle.

Viscount Bury was a staunch advocate of homeopathy and a patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital,

In 1866, Viscount Bury was on the Committee of the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method, with William Pitt Amherst 2nd Earl Amherst, Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort, Ralph Buchan, William Alleyne Cecil Lord Burghley 3rd Marquess of Exeter, George Thomas Keppel 6th Earl of Albemarle (the Earl of Albemarle’s father), James Key Caird 1st Baronet (Vice Chairman), Colonel Challoner, George Grimston Craven 3rd Earl of Craven, Henry William Dashwood 5th Baronet, Patrick Dudgeon, Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury, Francis Richard Charteris 10th Earl of Wemyss Lord Elcho, Arthur Algernon Capell 6th Earl of Essex, Richard Grosvenor Earl Grosvenor 2nd Marquess of Westminster, Philip Howard Frere, Edward Kerrison, Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Llanover, Colonel Farnaby Lennard, George Loch, Archibald Keppel MacDonald, Arthur de Vere Capell Viscount Malden, John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough (Chairman), Frederick Francis Maude, William Miles, James Moore, Charles Gordon Lennox 5th Duke of Richmond, Charles Marsham 3rd Earl of Romney, Sir Anthony Rothschild, John Villiers Shelley, John Robert Townshend 1st Earl Sydney, Lt. Colonel Charles Towneley, Augustus Henry Vernon, William Warren Vernon, Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, William Wells,

In 1866, the Treasury placed rooms at Adelphi Terrace at the disposal of John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough, who was the Chairman of the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method, based on the research done in Belgium by Edward Hamilton, with John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough overseeing the work of Edward Hamilton, George Lennox Moore, James Moore and Alfred Crosby Pope.

Viscount Bury issued an address or report for the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method in 1866. Bury reported that the Dutch had experienced such success with homeopathy against that cattle plague, that they had authorised Edward Hamilton to visit Holland to investigate this.

Edward Hamilton discovered that the Dutch had treated 4798 cattle, 1031 were destroyed = 3767 were treated (with a mixture of allopathic and homeopathic treatments), the survival rate for the beasts treated was 45%, and the survival rate for the beasts treated only by homeopathy was 72-5%.

The Dutch Government had agreed to allow E Seutin, a homeopathic chemist, the total control of infected cattle in Matterness, and initially, E Seutin saved 70% of the cattle, though latterly, he had saved 9 out of every 10 beasts brought to him for treatment, and E Seutin’s use of homeoprophylaxic treatment of unifected beasts brought the epidemic under control entirely within four weeks. Matterness was pronounced free from infection and it has remained thus ever since. The remedies used were arsenicum, phosphorus, phos ac, rhus tox and sulphur.

In 1866, George Lennox Moore became involved with Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method, alongside Edward Hamilton and Alfred Crosby Pope, and overseen by John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough.

George Lennox Moore wrote a detailed report on these trials, including a refutation of the falsities published in The Lancet regarding the homeopathic treatment of the cattle plague, attacking Viscount Bury and accusing him of ‘being completely misinformed on this matter‘, and inventing a trail of misleading mistruths about the situation.

The orthodox statistics of this clinical trial revealed 8640 cases, 8% killed, 77% died and 15% recovered, though John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough subsequently issued the interim homeopathic results claiming up to 50% recovery rates with arsenicum, belladonna, phosphorus, rhus tox and turpentine as the main homeopathic remedies used.

The Times wrote an article wishing the homeopaths success in these homeopathic trials, but they also made a pithy comment that the allopaths would probably rather see all the cattle die than have homeopathy proved successfull.

The final report on the homeopathic trials in the treatment of cattle plague was issued by John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough. The orthodox statistics of this clinical trial revealed 8640 cases, 8% killed, 77% died and 15% recovered, though John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough subsequently issued the interim homeopathic results claiming up to 50% recovery rates with arsenicum, belladonna, phosphorus, rhus tox and turpentine as the main homeopathic remedies used.

Of course, the ‘valuable and so far successful’ results of the homeopathic trials so far outstripped orthodox treatments, the homeopathic trials were immediately postponed by ‘orthodox sources’.

A son to George Thomas Keppel 6th Earl of Albemarle and Susan Coutts Trotter, William was educated at Eton.

In 1843, he became an Ensign and Lieutenant in the 43rd (Regiment of) Foot, from 1848 until 1853, he was a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards, becoming Aide de Camp to Lord Frederick FitzClarence in India.

From 1851 until 1891, he was styled Viscount Bury, then succeeded his father to become 7th Earl of Albemarle.

From 1854 until 1856, Keppel was Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Canada. On 15 November 1855, at Dundurn, in Canada, he married Sophia Mary Macnab, daughter of Allan Napier MacNab, a Joint Premier of the Province of Canada, and they became the parents of ten children :

Lt-Col. Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle (1858–1942).

Hon. Gertrude Mary Keppel (9 November 1859 – 7 April 1860).

Lady Theodora Keppel (c. 1861 – 30 October 1945), married Colonel Leslie Davidson and had issue (?).

Hon. Derek Keppel (1863–1944).

Lady Hilda Mary Keppel (29 August 1864 – 7 October 1955), unmarried.

Lt-Col. Hon. George Keppel (1865–1947), husband of the royal mistress Alice Keppel.

Lady Leopoldina Olivia Keppel (14 November 1866 – 9 August 1948), a nun.

Lady Susan Mary Keppel (5 May 1868 – 26 June 1953), married Sir Walter Townley in 1896.

Lady Mary Stuart Keppel (15 May 1869 – 21 September 1906), married Sir Harold Tagart in 1900.

Lady Florence Cecilia Keppel (24 February 1871 – 30 June 1963), married William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork in 1902.

From 1857 until 1859, Keppel served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich; from 1860 until 1865 for Wick Burghs and, from 1868 until 1874 for Berwick upon Tweed.

Keppel was appointed Privy Counsellor in 1859. From 1859 until 1866, he was Treasurer of the Queen’s Household and, on 6 September 1876, was summoned to the House of Lords in his father’s Barony of Ashford. He was Under Secretary of State for War from 1878 until 1880, as well as in 1885 and 1886.

On Easter Sunday, 13 April 1879, he was received into the Church of Rome. In 1881, he became a Volunteer Aide de Camp to Queen Victoria.

He wrote a history of the American colonization called Exodus of the Western Nations (1865), A Report on the Condition of the Indians of British North America, and was the principal author of the Cycling volume of the Badminton Library (1887).

Keppel died aged sixty two, of paralysis, and was buried at Quidenham.

Keppel’s son George was the husband of Alice Keppel, the most famous mistress of Edward VII. He is also the great great grandfather of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall and the modern day television celebrity and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? champion Judith Keppel.