From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Jenico) Nicholas Dudley Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston (born 19 November 1939), is an
Anglo-Irish aristocrat and
British
hereditary peer, who
sat in the
House of Lords (as
Baron Gormanston) until
1999.
[1]
Lord Gormanston is the
premier
viscount in the
Peerage of Ireland (
title created
1478).
[2]
Family background
The only
son and
heir of
Captain the 16th Viscount Gormanston (1914–1940)
[3] and Pamela Hanly, daughter of Captain Edward Hanly and Lady Marjorie Feilding (daughter of
the 9th Earl of Denbigh), he
succeeded to the
family titles before his first birthday; the
16th
Viscount (Captain Jenico Preston,
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) was
killed in action
[4] during the
Battle of France in 1940.
[5]
His maternal great-grandfather was
General
Sir William Butler, of
Bansha Castle,
County Tipperary, and his great-grandmother was the celebrated Victorian painter,
Elizabeth Thompson (later Lady Butler). The
14th Viscount Gormanston
GCMG, a diplomat, was his paternal great-grandfather.
Education
A
Roman Catholic like his forebears, Lord Gormanston attended the
Benedictine
school of
Downside,
Somerset. He is a connoisseur of
art.
Gormanston Castle
The
ancestral seat,
Gormanston Castle in
County Meath,
Ireland, was sold to the
Franciscan
Order of Friars Minor (OFM) in 1947, becoming
Gormanston College.
[6]
Personal life
In 1974, Viscount Gormanston married, firstly, Eva-Antonie Landzwójczaka (1955–1984),
[7] having two sons:
[8]
-
Hon. Jenico Francis Tara Preston, born 1974,
heir apparent; commercial director,
[9]
British Fashion Council
[10] then
Future Olympia,
[11] married 2015 Kelly Catherine Reade (born 1978),
global communications
director
Jo Malone,
[12] descended via her mother from the
Marquises of Chaves,
[13] by whom he has one son,
- (Jenico Bertram Nicholas) Alfred Preston, born 2016,
heir in line;
- Hon. William Luke Preston, born 1976, married 2016 Victoria Christensen.
[14]
Viscount Gormanston married, secondly, on 2 November 1997 Lucy Arabella Fox (born 1960), daughter of
Edward Fox and
Tracy Reed.
[15]
Lord and Lady Gormanston live in
Kensington,
London.
See also
References
External links
|
---|
Sorted by (historical) entity at time of grant |
England
| | |
---|
Scotland
| |
---|
Great Britain
| |
---|
Ireland
|
-
Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston
-
Piers Butler, 18th Viscount Mountgarret
-
Francis Annesley, 16th Viscount Valentia
-
Henry Dillon, 22nd Viscount Dillon
-
John Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene
-
John Caulfeild, 15th Viscount Charlemont
-
Richard Dawnay, 12th Viscount Downe
-
Robert Molesworth, 12th Viscount Molesworth
-
Adam Chetwynd, 11th Viscount Chetwynd
-
Alan Brodrick, 12th Viscount Midleton
-
Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 11th Viscount Boyne
-
Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage
-
Phil Monckton, 13th Viscount Galway
-
Mervyn Wingfield, 11th Viscount Powerscourt
-
Michael Flower, 11th Viscount Ashbrook
-
Pyers Southwell, 7th Viscount Southwell
-
Thomas Vesey, 7th Viscount de Vesci
-
Edward Hewitt, 9th Viscount Lifford
-
William Ward, 8th Viscount Bangor
-
William Ward, 8th Viscount Doneraile
-
Henry Pomeroy, 11th Viscount Harberton
-
Robert Maude, 9th Viscount Hawarden
-
John Skeffington, 7th Viscount Ferrard
-
Charles Monck, 7th Viscount Monck
-
Foley Vereker, 9th Viscount Gort
|
---|
United Kingdom
|
-
Edward Jervis, 8th Viscount St Vincent
-
Robert Dundas, 10th Viscount Melville
-
Jeremy Addington, 8th Viscount Sidmouth
-
Paul Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth
-
Thomas Stapleton-Cotton, 6th Viscount Combermere
-
Peter Clegg-Hill, 9th Viscount Hill
-
Thomas Hardinge, 8th Viscount Hardinge
-
Alexander Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport
-
Christopher Portman, 10th Viscount Portman
-
Francis Brand, 7th Viscount Hampden
-
Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden
-
Michael Holland-Hibbert, 6th Viscount Knutsford
-
Christopher Brett, 5th Viscount Esher
-
Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen
-
Matt Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley
-
Charles Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross
-
Christopher Gully, 6th Viscount Selby
-
Patrick Knollys, 4th Viscount Knollys
-
Wenworth Beaumont, 4th Viscount Allendale
-
Alastair Akers-Douglas, 4th Viscount Chilston
-
Peter Curzon, 4th Viscount Scarsdale
-
Edward Bigham, 5th Viscount Mersey
-
Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray
-
Terence Kearley, 3rd Viscount Devonport
-
William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor
-
Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne
-
Rhodri Philipps, 4th Viscount St Davids
-
Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere
-
Henry Allenby, 4th Viscount Allenby
-
Frederic Thesiger, 4th Viscount Chelmsford
-
James Long, 5th Viscount Long
-
Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater
-
James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie
-
Nicholas Samuel, 5th Viscount Bearsted
-
Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon
-
Robin Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman
-
Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham
-
Crispin Joynson-Hicks, 4th Viscount Brentford
-
Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster
-
Rupert Bathurst, 4th Viscount Bledisloe
-
David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth
-
Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard
-
Jonathan Samuel, 5th Viscount Samuel
-
David Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford
-
Nicolas Davidson, 4th Viscount Davidson
-
William Weir, 3rd Viscount Weir
-
Piers Inskip, 3rd Viscount Caldecote
-
Jonathan Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose
-
Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate
-
Richard Margesson, 3rd Viscount Margesson
-
James FitzRoy Newdegate, 4th Viscount Daventry
-
William Addison, 4th Viscount Addison
-
Richard Berry, 3rd Viscount Kemsley
-
Peter Penny, 4th Viscount Marchwood
-
Henry Montgomery, 3rd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
-
John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley
-
John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso
-
Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough
-
Jason Cooper, 3rd Viscount Norwich
-
Christopher Leathers, 3rd Viscount Leathers
-
Peter Ramsbottom, 4th Viscount Soulbury
-
Thomas Lyttelton, 3rd Viscount Chandos
-
Ashley Huggins, 3rd Viscount Malvern
-
Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle
-
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
-
Timothy Lloyd George, 4th Viscount Tenby
-
Clive Mackintosh, 3rd Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax
-
Andrew Morrison, 3rd Viscount Dunrossil
-
James Stuart, 3rd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
-
Jonathan Kemp, 3rd Viscount Rochdale
-
Mark Slim, 3rd Viscount Slim
-
Richard Head, 2nd Viscount Head
-
Simon Lennox-Boyd, 2nd Viscount Boyd of Merton
-
Christopher Mills, 3rd Viscount Mills
-
Caspar Hare, 3rd Viscount Blakenham
-
John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles
-
James Manningham-Buller, 3rd Viscount Dilhorne
|
---|
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed viscountcy of greater precedence |
|
---|
|
Notes:
-
^ The family members who were actors, or associated with the theatre, are highlighted in amber
|
|