William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart

William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart (March 3 1859 – November 22 1935) in the Peerage of Scotland, was also a Baronet (cr.1793) in the Baronetage of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Rutland (1881–1906), and Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.

He was a grandson of the 8th Earl, and the son of William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower and his wife Katherine.

In 1885 he married Cecilia Florence (d. 1917), daughter of George Onslow Newton, Esq., of Croxton Park, Cambridgeshire. Upon her death he did not remarry.

Lord Dysart's seats were Ham House, Petersham, Richmond, Surrey, and Buckminster Park, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

The Earl was blind for most of his life, but this did not prevent him from serving as president of the London Wagner Society from 1884 until 1895. [cite book | title=Richard Wagner and the English | first=Anne Dzamba | last=Sessa | page=38 | publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | year=1839 | isbn=0838620558 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lMDdEWuXU44C | accessdate=2008-01-09]

Upon his death, the Scottish peerage devolved upon his niece, Wenefryde Scott, while his British baronetcy was inherited by his second cousin Lyonel, to whom Dysart also left Ham House.

References

* "Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes", London, 1903, p.487
* "Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage", London, 1935, p.252

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