词条 | Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret |
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Richard Henry Piers Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret (8 November 1936 – 7 February 2004) was a British soldier. Early lifeButler was born at Knaresborough, the son of Piers Butler, 16th Viscount Mountgarret and Eglantine Christie. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst before joining the Irish Guards. CareerHe was commissioned in the Irish Guards in 1957, retiring in the rank of captain in 1964. Two years later he succeeded his father in the viscountcy, which had been created in 1550. After retiring from the Irish Guards, he was president of Yorkshire Cricket Club between 1984 and 1989. He moved to the {{convert|2000|acre|km2|sing=on}} estate in South Stainley, near Ripon, after selling his family home, Nidd Hall, in the mid-1960s. He became the most likely heir to the title of Earldom of Ormond(e) (created 1328), the 16th century Earldom of Ossory and thus Chief Butler/Chief of the Butlers of Ireland (dormant since the death of the last Marquess of Ormonde), but submitted no claim to these Irish peerages to the British monarch. Marriages and childrenLord Mountgarret married three times. His first wife was Gillian Margaret Buckley, daughter of Cyril Francis Stewart Buckley and Audrey Burmester, on 20 May 1960 but divorced in 1970. The couple had two sons and a daughter:
Mountgarret later married Jennifer Susan Wills, a member of the Wills tobacco family, daughter of Capt. DM Wills, on 29 April 1970, but divorced in 1983. He finally married Angela Ruth Porter, eldest daughter of Major Thomas Porter, on 25 May 1983. See also
References1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/mountgarret1550.htm | title=Online peerage | accessdate=12 February 2016}}
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