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

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 handicapped 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.

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.

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

References
  1. Who's Who 2007 (A. & C. Black Ltd, London, 2007)
  2. Earl of Dunraven passes away after short illness Archived 2011-04-01 at the Wayback Machine Limerick Leader, 2011-03-28.
  3. "Lady Ana Wyndham Quin and Duncan Johnson". Irish Times.
  4. The 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl, Telegraph Announcements, 28 March 2011
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Richard Wyndham-Quin		 Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
1965–2011		 Extinct
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