Charles Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon

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Charles Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon, 2019

Charles Peregrine Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon (born August 14, 1975 ) is a British peer , lawyer and politician.

Life

He is the only son of Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon (1942–2015) and Diana Watherston. He belongs to the noble family Courtenay . As his father's apparent marriage , he had the courtesy title of Lord Courtenay from 1998 to 2015 .

As usual in the English upper class, he was first educated at Eton College . He then studied law at St. John's College of Cambridge University . From 2001 he perfected his legal knowledge at the Inns of Court School of Law , after he had been admitted to the Inner Temple as a barrister in 1999 .

He then went to the USA, where he worked as a lawyer in a law firm in Los Angeles . Here he met the American actress Allison Joy Langer , whom he married in 2004.

He gave up his legal practice in Los Angeles in 2014 and returned permanently to London with his family . When his father died in 2015, he inherited his title as 19th Earl of Devon . With the title, the family estates in the county of Devon also fell to him. Since then he has resided at the Earls' family seat, Powderham Castle in Devon.

In July 2018, he applied for a vacant seat in the House of Lords , which is reserved for hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999 . In this by-election he got the most votes and became a member of parliament. The Earl of Devon is non-party and is therefore part of the Crossbencher group .

From his marriage to Allison Joy Langer he has two daughters and a son born in 2009. This son, Jack Haydon Langer Courtnay, Lord Courtenay, is his heir apparent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 1, Wilmington 2003, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 , pp. 1121 ff.
  2. ↑ Result-by-election-04-07-18.pdf at parliament.uk
  3. ↑ People Magazine , August 16, 2009
predecessor Office successor
Charles Courtenay Earl of Devon
2015 – present 		current title holder
personal data
SURNAME Courtenay, Charles, 19th Earl of Devon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Courtenay, Charles Peregrine, 19th Earl of Devon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer, lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1975