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词条 Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton
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  1. Career

  2. Personal life

  3. References

  4. External links

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Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (born 8 February 1934) is a British aristocrat, financier and academic. He is the eldest son of Robert Egerton Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury and his first wife Anne Acland-Troyte. He succeeded his father as 6th Baron Ebury in 1957, and his fourth cousin, Seymour William Arthur John Egerton, 7th Earl of Wilton, to the earldom in 1999.

Career

Following a career in the financial services industry in London, Melbourne and Hong Kong, he attained a doctorate in Philosophy-Arts at Melbourne University, going on to teach there as 'Dr Francis Ebury'. The Earl is a member of the Board of Directors of Victorian Opera (Melbourne).

Personal life

He married firstly, on 10 December 1957 (marriage dissolved 1962), Gilian Elfrida Astley Elfin Soames, with issue:

  • Julian Francis Martin Grosvenor, Viscount Grey of Wilton (born 8 June 1959), married in 1987 (marriage dissolved by divorce 1990) Danielle Rossi.

He married secondly, on 8 March 1963 (marriage dissolved 1973), Kyra Aslin.

He married thirdly, in 1974, Suzanne Jean Suckling (4 August 1943 - 12 April 2018), with issue:

  • Lady Georgina Lucy Grosvenor (29 March 1973 — 16 August 2003), a noted violist, married in 2000 to Peter Mitev.

As "Sue Ebury", his third wife was a biographer (The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer; Weary the Life of Sir Edward Dunlop, Weary: King Of The River), editor and publisher; member of the Development Council of the National Library of Australia, and Patron of the Australian Garden History Society.

References

  •  , Dr Francis Ebury, University of Melbourne: Publications
  •  , The Peerage
  •  , Cracrofts Peerage

External links

  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=VYcUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467 The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility] Saunders and Otley, 1838
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