Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne

Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne

Charles Maurice Petty-FitzMaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne LVO DL (born 21 February 1941), styled Earl of Shelburne between 1944 and 1997, is a British peer.

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Early life

He is the son of George Petty-FitzMaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, a former Conservative politician and Barbara née Chase. His father inherited the peerage titles (and the Bowood House estates in Wiltshire) from a cousin, the 7th Marquess of Lansdowne, who was killed in action in 1944.

He was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II in 1956–1957.[1]

Career

Lord Lansdowne (known then as Earl of Shelburne) served in the Kenya Regiment from 1960 to 1961.[2] In 1962 he was gazetted a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry[3] and in 1971 transferred with the rank of Lieutenant to the Royal Yeomanry attached to the Royal Armoured Corps.[2][4]

He was a member of Calne and Chippenham rural district council from 1964 to 1973, President of the Wiltshire Playing Fields Association from 1965 to 1974, a member of Wiltshire County Council from 1970 to 1985, and a councillor of North Wiltshire District Council from 1973 to 1976.[2] He was chairman of Calne and Chippenham RDC from 1970 to 1973 and of North Wiltshire DC from 1973 to 1976.[5] In 1990, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire.[6] He has served as President of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust from 1994 to date.[7]

At the 1979 general election, he contested Coventry North East for the Conservatives.[2]

On August 25, 1997, his father died and he became Marquess of Lansdowne and a member of the House of Lords.[2]

In 2001, Lord Lansdowne was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, shortly after retiring as a member of the Prince's Council of the Duchy of Cornwall.[8]

Family

On 9 October 1965, he married, firstly, Lady Frances Helen Mary Eliot (6 March 1943 – 6 January 2004), daughter of Nicholas Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans, but they were divorced in 1987, having had four children:[9]

  • Lady Arabella Helen Mary Petty-Fitzmaurice, now Lady Arabella Unwin (b. 30 August 1966), married Rupert Unwin and has issue, three children.
  • Lady Rachel Barbara Violet Petty-Fitzmaurice (b. 30 January 1968), married James Spickernell and has issue, four children.
  • Simon Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry (b. 24 November 1970), unmarried.
  • Lord William Nicholas Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice (b. 25 September 1973) married (engaged 29 April 2003) Rebecca Sansum (b. 1982), of Chippenham, Wiltshire.[10][11] They have two daughters:
    • Zara Frances Elaine Petty-Fitzmaurice, (b. 1 November 2006).
    • Isla Mary Rose Petty-Fitzmaurice (b. 30 August 2008)[12]

In 1987 he married, secondly, Fiona Mary Merritt (b. 1954), daughter of Donald Merritt and Lady Davies,[2] an interior decorator known by her married name of Fiona Shelburne.

References

  1. ^ London Gazette, Issue 40733 of 16 March 1956, page 1583 online
  2. ^ a b c d e f 'Lansdowne, 9th Marquess of' in Who's Who 2010 (London: A. & C. Black, 2009)
  3. ^ London Gazette, Issue 42793 of 25 September 1962, page 7579 online
  4. ^ London Gazette, Issue 45917 of 26 February 1973 (Supplement), page 2677 online
  5. ^ Charles Maurice Mercer Nairne Petty-FitzMaurice, later Petty-FitzMaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 21 May 2010
  6. ^ London Gazette, Issue 52202 of 4 July 1990, page 11412 online
  7. ^ Colin Johns, Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust 1967-2007 (2007) online, Appendix 1
  8. ^ London Gazette, Issue 56430 of 31 December 2001 (Supplement No. 1), page S3 online
  9. ^ Paul Theroff, Lansdowne, retrieved 2 November 2008
  10. ^ Paul Theroff. "News of Other James I Descendants, 2003" in [1]. Retrieved 27 September 2007
  11. ^ Anon. "Lansdowne Family Tree" from Bowood House website. [2]. Retrieved 27 September 2007.
  12. ^ Isla Mary Rose Petty-Fitzmaurice 7 September 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2008

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Court offices
Preceded by
Hon. Simon Scott
Page of Honour
1956–1957
Succeeded by
Oliver Russell
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
George Petty-FitzMaurice
Marquess of Lansdowne
1999–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent

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