Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath

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Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (born May 6, 1932 in London , † April 4, 2020 in Bath ) was a British nobleman, author and politician .

Origin and youth

Alexander Thynne came from the noble Thynne family . He was born as Alexander Thynne, the eldest son of Henry Thynne and his first wife, Daphne Vivian. He attended Eton College and studied at Christ Church College , Oxford . After his father inherited the title of Marquess of Bath in 1946 , Alexander carried the courtesy title of Viscount Weymouth . He entered the British Army , where he served as a lieutenant in the Life Guards in 1951 .

Life

His father took over Longleat House in 1946 after the death of his grandfather and was the first British aristocrat to start marketing a mansion to tourists. Alexander became co-owner of the property from 1958 and took over sole management of the property while his father was still alive. He continued to build Longleat as a tourist attraction; u. a. he created mazes and opened a Center Parc on the property . In the manor house, he designed several rooms with colorful murals he painted himself, some of which were erotic, and which he released for viewing. In 2010 he handed over the management of the family property to his son. Politically, he campaigned for a regionalization of Great Britain. In the 1970s he founded the Wessex Regionalist Party , a regional party with which he ran in the general election in February 1974 and in the 1979 European elections. As a candidate of his party, however, he received only 521 votes in the general election and fewer than 2000 votes in the European elections, whereupon he refrained from further candidacies. In 1976 he changed his name to Thynn . After his father's death in 1992, he inherited his title and became a member of the House of Lords , where he belonged to the Liberal Democrats . With the reform of the upper house in 1999 , he lost his inherited seat.

Lord Bath was considered an eccentric and bohemian hippie who mostly ran barefoot and wore long hair. On May 9, 1969, he married the actress Anna Gaël , a daughter of the Hungarian Laszlo Izsak Gyarmathy. Despite his marriage, with the consent of his wife, who had her own apartment in Paris, he had numerous, according to his own statements, 73 lovers. He had two children with his wife:

Alexander Thynn died at the age of 88 as a result of the COVID-19 disease. His son Ceawlin, whom he named after the Anglo-Saxon King Ceawlin , is his successor as Marquess of Bath.

Works

Lord Bath wrote a. a. the following books:

  • The Carry Cot. Longleat Press 1972, ISBN 0-905709-01-2 .
  • Lord Weymouth's Murals. Longleat 1974.
  • A Regionalist Manifesto. 1975.
  • The King is Dead. Longleat Press, 1976, ISBN 0-905709-00-4 .
  • Pillars of the Establishment. Hamlyn, Feltham 1980, ISBN 0-600-20483-9 .
  • The New World Order of Alexander Thynn. Views on politics, society and religion. Starhaven, London 2000, ISBN 0-936315-13-X .
  • The Early Years. (Autobiography, Volume I) Artnik, London 2002, ISBN 1-903906-24-5 .
  • Strictly Private to Public Exposure. (Autobiography, Volume II) Artnik, London 2005, ISBN 1-903906-24-5 .
  • Top Hat and Tails (Autobiography, Volume III) Artnik, London 2003, ISBN 1-903906-25-3 .
  • Two bites of the apple. Artnik, London 2003, ISBN 1-903906-26-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath on thepeerage.com , accessed May 7, 2017.
  2. ^ Peter Sager (journalist) : Kamasutra with Lord Bath . In: DIE ZEIT, 40/1995 . September 29, 1995.
  3. ↑ Claire Carter: The Telegraph: Viscountess puts wedding on display after father-in-law Lord Bath snubbed big day. May 22, 2014, accessed October 6, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Peter Sager: Southern England (DuMont art travel guide). DuMont, Cologne 1996. ISBN 3-7701-3498-2 , p. 250.
  5. ↑ Lord Bath of Longleat dies after testing positive for Covid-19. In: times-series.co.uk . April 5, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020.
predecessor Office successor
Henry Thynne Marquess of Bath
1992-2020 		Ceawlin Thynn
personal data
SURNAME Thynn, Alexander, 7th Marquess of Bath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thynne, Alexander; Thynne, Alexander, Viscount Weymouth; Thynn, Alexander, Viscount Weymouth; Bath, Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman, politician and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2020
Place of death Bath