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
Great-great-great- grandparents	Hon. Thomas Powlett Orde-Powlett (1787–1843) son of Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton and Jean Mary Browne-Powlett daughter of Charles Paulet, 5th Duke of Bolton	Andrew Robert Drummond (1794–1865) ⚭ 1822 Lady Elizabeth Frederica Manners († 1886) daughter of John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland		Abraham Colles (1773–1843) ⚭ Sophia Cope	Hon. George Villiers (1759–1827) son of Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon ⚭ 1798 Hon. Theresa Parker (1775–1856) daughter of John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon	John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766–1839) ⚭ 1786 Hon. Georgiana Elizabeth Byng († 1801) daughter of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington	Johann Christian Jauch senior (1765–1865)
Great-great-grandparents	William Orde-Powlett, 3rd Baron Bolton (1818–1895) ⚭ 1864 Letitia Crawfurd (1825–1882)	Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough (1813–1884) ⚭ 1846 Frederica Mary Adeliza Drummond († 1907)	William Gibson (1808–1872) ⚭ 1831 Louisa Grant	Henry Jonathan Cope Colles ⚭ 1868 Elizabeth Mary Mayne	Hon. Henry Montagu Villiers (1813–1861) Bishop of Durham ⚭ 1837 Amelia Maria Hulton († 1871)	John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) ⚭ 1835 Lady Adelaide Ribblesdale († 1838)	Gustav Lührsen (1805–1868) ⚭ Charlotte Jauch (1811–1872)
Great grandparents	William Orde-Powlett, 4th Baron Bolton (1845–1922) ⚭ 1868 Lady Algitha Frederica Mary Lumley (1847–1919)		Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne (1837–1913) Lord Chancellor of Ireland ⚭ 1868 Frances Maria Adelaide Colles (1849–1926)		Henry Montagu Villiers (* 1837) preamble of St. Paul's Cathedral ⚭ 1861 Lady Victoria Russell (1838–1880)		Dr. Johannes Lührsen (1838–1903) Imperial German Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister ⚭ 1887 Amalie Petersberger
Grandparents	William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton (1869–1944) Member of Parliament for Richmond ⚭ 1893 Hon. Elizabeth Mary Gibson (1871–1943)				Henry Montagu Villiers (1863–1948) British consul ⚭ 1895 Carmen Carlota Elvira Lührsen (1877–1958)
parents	Nigel Orde-Powlett, 6th Baron Bolton (1900–1963) ⚭ 1928 Victoria Mary Villiers (1903–1933)
Richard William Algar Orde-Powlett, 7th Baron Bolton (1929-2001)

literature

• Lord Bolton (obituary) in: Telegraph, August 11, 2001 online version

Web links

• Wensley or Bolton Hall - seat of Lords Bolton
• Bolton Stud (Bolton Stud)

References and comments

1. ↑ Nigel Amyas Orde-Powlett, 6th Baron Bolton of Bolton Castle on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
2. ↑ Victoria Mary Villiers on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
3. ↑ 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
4. ^ The Battle for Basra ( Memento from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Military Cross to Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett
6. ↑ Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett No. 17 of the "Young Rich"

predecessor	Office	successor
Nigel Orde-Powlett	Baron Bolton 1963-2001	Harry Orde-Powlett