Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt
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Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt KP, MVO (16 July 1880 – 21 March 1947[1]) was an Irish peer.
He was born to Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, whom he succeeded as Viscount Powerscourt in 1904. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wicklow on 15 February 1910 and created a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 18 April 1916. He died on 21 March 1947.
He is an ancestor of Sarah, Duchess of York through her mother Susan Barrantes, Powerscourt's grand-daughter via her mother, the Hon. Doreen Wingfield.
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- 1880 births
- 1947 deaths
- Knights of St Patrick
- Lord-Lieutenants of Wicklow
- Members of the Royal Victorian Order
- Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland
- Members of the Senate of Southern Ireland
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