Algar Orde-Powlett, 7th Baron Bolton
Richard William Algar Orde-Powlett, 7th Baron Bolton (* July 11, 1929 - July 29, 2001 ) was a British landowner and conservative politician.
Life
Orde-Powlett was the eldest son of Nigel Orde-Powlett, 6th Baron Bolton , and Victoria Mary Villiers of the Earls of Clarendon family . He followed his father as Baron Bolton in 1963 . Through his mother, he is one of the descendants of William the Conqueror .
Orde-Powlett grew up with his grandparents at Bolton Hall, then attended Eton College and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1951 . In the same year he married The Honorable Christine Weld-Forester, daughter of Cecil George Wilfred Weld-Forester, 7th Baron Forester of Willey Park, first marriage . After divorcing in 1981, he married Masha Ann Hudson, from whom he divorced in 1990, and in 1991, Lavinia Wright. He had a daughter and two sons from his first marriage, including Harry , who was born in 1954 and who inherited the title after his death. His grandson (heir apparent) is Captain The Honorable Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett, who was awarded the Military Cross as an officer in the Irish Guards for his service near Basra in the Iraq War in 2004 .
Orde-Powlett was a hereditary member of the House of Lords . Its lands, formerly owned by the extinct Dukes of Bolton , from whom the Barons Bolton descended, had an area of approximately 12,000 acres, equivalent to about 4,850 hectares with an estimated value of £ 70 million . They included Bolton Hall , the family seat, and Bolton Castle in the Yorkshire Dales , one of the best preserved medieval castles in England, built between 1379 and 1399 by his ancestor Richard Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton , Lord Chancellor of Richard II of England .
1957 to 1980 Orde-Powlett was chairman of the Richmond Conservative Association in Yorkshire. In the House of Lords he was a member of the conservative wing and campaigned in particular for an independent Rhodesia , in which the family of his first wife owned land under Ian Smith . He was managing director of Yorkshire Insurance from 1964 until it was taken over by General Accident in 1970, when it was its managing director. He also participated in the acquisition of various horticultural companies. Orde-Powlett was magistrate for North Riding of Yorkshire from 1959 to 1978 and chairman for Yorkshire of the Royal Forestry Society from 1962 to 1964. His horse breeding in the traditional "Bolton stud" was also known.
Orde-Powlett was a Member of the House of Lords until November 11, 1999 , when he lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999 .
In 1966, Orde-Powlett, an excellent shotgun shooter, doubled David Niven as James Bond in the hunting scenes of the film Casino Royale while filming on his land .
Pedigree
Ancestor of Algar Orde-Powlett, 7th Baron Bolton | ||||||||
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Great-great-great- grandparents |
Hon. Thomas Powlett Orde-Powlett |
Andrew Robert Drummond |
Abraham Colles |
Hon. George Villiers |
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford |
Johann Christian Jauch senior (1765–1865) |
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Great-great-grandparents |
William Orde-Powlett, 3rd Baron Bolton |
Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough |
William Gibson |
Henry Jonathan Cope Colles |
Hon. Henry Montagu Villiers |
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) |
Gustav Lührsen (1805–1868) |
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Great grandparents |
William Orde-Powlett, 4th Baron Bolton |
Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne |
Henry Montagu Villiers (* 1837) |
Dr. Johannes Lührsen (1838–1903) |
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Grandparents |
William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton |
Henry Montagu Villiers (1863–1948) |
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parents |
Nigel Orde-Powlett, 6th Baron Bolton (1900–1963) |
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Richard William Algar Orde-Powlett, 7th Baron Bolton (1929-2001) |
literature
- Lord Bolton (obituary) in: Telegraph, August 11, 2001 online version
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Nigel Amyas Orde-Powlett, 6th Baron Bolton of Bolton Castle on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
- ↑ Victoria Mary Villiers on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
- ↑ See Melville Henry Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval, "The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England" , 1994, ISBN 9780806314334 , p. 381; Descendants list Conquerer 10
- ^ The Battle for Basra ( Memento from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Military Cross to Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett
- ↑ Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett No. 17 of the "Young Rich"
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Nigel Orde-Powlett |
Baron Bolton 1963-2001 |
Harry Orde-Powlett |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Orde-Powlett, Algar, 7th Baron Bolton |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orde-Powlett, Algar Richard William, 7th Baron Bolton |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British landowner and Tory |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1929 |
DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 2001 |