Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
Thady Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (27 October 1939 – 25 March 2011) was an Irish hereditary peer.
Early life
[edit]Lord Dunraven was born in 1939, the third child and only son of Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl and his wife Nancy Yuille. He was educated at Ludgrove School and at the Institut Le Rosey, Switzerland.[1] In 1956, while a schoolboy, he contracted polio in the Cork epidemic and was a wheelchair user for the rest of his life.[2][3]
He succeeded to the earldom and its subsidiary titles in 1965 upon the death of his father.[1]
Career
[edit]Lord Dunraven sold Adare Manor and its contents in 1984 to Irish-American businessman Tom Kane. The manor was converted into the Adare Manor Hotel. Thereafter he lived with his family at nearby Kilgobbin House.[4]
He was chairman of the Irish Wheelchair Association for two decades.[5] The Dunraven Centre, a disability resource centre at Limerick Enterprise Development Park, is named after him.[citation needed]
Marriage and children
[edit]On 15 February 1969, Dunraven married Geraldine McAleer, daughter of Air Commodore Gerard Ward McAleer, CBE, MB, BCh. They had one daughter:
Death
[edit]Lord Dunraven died at his home on 25 March 2011, at the age of 71. As he had no son and as there were no other surviving male line descendants of the 1st Earl, the earldom and subsidiary titles became extinct upon his death.[8]
Ancestry
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c Who's Who 2007 (A. & C. Black Ltd, London, 2007)
- ^ Irish Times, obituary, 2 April 2011
- ^ History Ireland, The 1956 polio epidemic in Cork
- ^ Irish Life and Lore, Geraldine Wyndham-Quin, Countess of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (b.1942)
- ^ Earl of Dunraven passes away after short illness Archived 2011-04-01 at the Wayback Machine Limerick Leader, 2011-03-28.
- ^ "Lady Ana Wyndham Quin and Duncan Johnson". Irish Times.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
- ^ The 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl, Telegraph Announcements, 28 March 2011
External links
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