Mervyn Wingfield, 10th Viscount Powerscourt

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Mervyn Niall Wingfield, 10th Viscount Powerscourt (born September 3, 1935 - † July 25, 2015 in Thailand ) was a British peer and non-party politician .

Life

Mervyn Niall Wingfield, 10th Viscount Powerscourt, was born to Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, 9th Viscount Powerscourt (1905-1973) and his wife Sheila Claude Beddington († 1992). With the death of his father on April 3, 1973 he inherited the title of Viscount Powerscourt ( Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt in the County of Wicklow ) in the Peerage of Ireland (1743) and the associated title of Baron Powerscourt ( Baron Powerscourt, of Powerscourt in the County of Wicklow ) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1885).

The family lived on the Powerscourt Estate family estate near Enniskerry in County Wicklow in southwest Ireland . Wingfield's father, Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, 9th Viscount Powerscourt, had sold the family property in 1961 to the American scientist, engineer and businessman Ralph CG Slazenger, the father of his future daughter-in-law and father-in-law of his son. During the purchase negotiations Wingfield also met his future wife Wendy and fell in love with her.

Wingfield married on September 15, 1962 in their first marriage Wendy Anne Pauline Slazenger, the daughter of Ralph CG Slazenger and his wife Gwendoline Margaret Slazenger. His first marriage resulted in two children, a son (* 1963) and a daughter (* 1965). The marriage was divorced in 1974. On March 15, 1978, according to other sources in 1979, he married Pauline Vann for the second time. His second wife was from San Francisco . The second marriage was also divorced in 1995.

Wingfield lived in Ireland, later in Tarabeg, near Dunsany in County Meath , and then for many years in Thailand. He had little contact with his family in Ireland. He died on July 25, 2015 at the age of 79 in his adopted country of Thailand. The title Viscount Powerscourt passed to his only son, Hon. Mervyn Anthony Wingfield (* 1963).

Membership in the House of Lords

After the death of his father in April 1973, he inherited the title of Viscount Powerscourt and the then associated seat in the House of Lords . He was a formal member of the House of Lords from April 3, 1973. He was a member of the House of Lords until November 11, 1999. Its membership ended by the House of Lords Act 1999 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Michael Rhodes: The 10th Viscount Powerscourt 1935-2015 death report at Peerage News from August 24, 2015 (English). Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Powerful portrait of the Big House and the lords and ladies who loved it so in: The Independent, April 2, 2006. Retrieved August 26, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d The romance and the tragedies of a great Irish estate in: The Independent of April 17, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c Mervyn Niall Wingfield, 10th Viscount Powerscourt on thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
  5. ^ A b c Mervyn Niall Wingfield, 10th Viscount Powerscourt . Entry on Cracroft's Peerage . Retrieved August 26, 2015
predecessor Office successor
Mervyn Wingfield Viscount Powerscourt
1973-2015 		Mervyn Wingfield
personal data
SURNAME Wingfield, Mervyn, 10th Viscount Powerscourt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wingfield, Mervyn Niall, 10th Viscount Powerscourt; Wingfield, Mervyn Niall, 10. Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt in the County of Wicklow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician (non-party)
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1935
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2015
Place of death Thailand