Dunraven
| Rt. Hon. the Earl of Dunraven | |||||||||
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| Born | 1841 | ||||||||
| Died | 1926 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Dunraven Castle, Bridgend Adare Manor, Co. Limerick; and Coombe Wood, Kingston-on-Thames [1875] Adare Manor, Adare co. Limerick; and Kenry House, Putney Vale, SW [1881] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
aristocracy political | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1881 Member
House Notes
proposed 1871.12.04
1889.02.12 The resignation of the Earl of Dunraven was announced.
Notes From Elsewhere
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, KP PC (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Irish journalist, landowner, entrepreneur, sportsman and Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Salisbury from 1885 to 1886 and 1886 to 1887. He also successfully presided over the 1902 Land Conference and was the founder of the Irish Reform Association.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1890
An Anglo-Irish newspaper correspondent and politician. He Served for a time in the Life Guards and in the Imperial Yeomanry, and was also an accomplished yachtsman. He left a brief reminiscence of Burton, though it is not certain when they first met—“Wilfrid Blount, with his Arab steeds and his oriental complex. Richard Burton, who prided himself on looking like Satan—as, indeed, he did, if Mephistopheles is a fair portrait—also with an oriental complex, but of a very different kind
