Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

Earl in the Peerage of Ireland (1939–2011)

Thady Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (27 October 1939 – 25 March 2011) was an Irish peer.

Early life

He was educated at Ludgrove School and Institut Le Rosey, Switzerland.^[1] While a schoolboy, he was disabled by polio.

He succeeded to the earldom in 1965 on the death of his father, Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven.^[1]

Career

Lord Dunraven sold Adare Manor and its contents in 1984 to Irish-American businessman Tom Kane, and the manor was converted into the Adare Manor Hotel. Thereafter he lived with his family in a nearby house called Kilgobbin House.^{[citation needed]}

He was chairman of the Irish Wheelchair Association for two decades.^[2] The Dunraven Centre, a disability resource centre at Limerick Enterprise Development Park, is named after him.^{[citation needed]}

Family

In 1969, he married Geraldine McAleer, daughter of Air Commodore Gerard W. McAleer, CBE, MB, BCh. They had one child, a daughter:

Lady Ana Wyndham-Quin (born 1972).^[1] m. Duncan Johnson in 2009.^[3]

Death

Lord Dunraven died at his home on 25 March 2011, aged 71.^[4] The earldom and his other titles became extinct on his death.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

16. Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

8. Hon. Windham Wyndham-Quin

17. Caroline Wyndham

4. Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

18. George Tyler

9. Caroline Tyler

19. Harriet Sullivan

2. Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

20. Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo

10. Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo

21. Anne Jocelyn

5. Lady Eva Bourke

22. George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield

11. Hon. Blanche Wyndham

23. Mary Blunt

1. Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

6. Thomas Yuille

3. Nancy Yuille

28. John Long

14. John Long

29. Melissa Williams

7. Nancy Long

15. Sallie Ridley

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Who's Who 2007 (A. & C. Black Ltd, London, 2007)
^ Earl of Dunraven passes away after short illness Archived 2011-04-01 at the Wayback Machine Limerick Leader, 2011-03-28.
^ "Lady Ana Wyndham Quin and Duncan Johnson". Irish Times.
^ The 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl, Telegraph Announcements, 28 March 2011