Captain
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Robin Rathmore Plunket, 8th
Baron Plunket
Baron Plunket, of Newtown in the County of Cork, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for the prominent Irish lawyer and Whig politician William Plunket. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1830 an ...
(3 December 1925 – 16 November 2013), was a descendant of prominent
Irish lawyer and
Whig politician
William Conyngham Plunket for whom the
Peerage
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Peerages include:
A ...
of the
United Kingdom
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(not of
Ireland
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) was created in 1827.
Plunket was
christened on 1 February 1926 at St Saviour's Church,
Walton Street, London. His
godmother was his parents' friend, the
Duchess of York
Duchess of York is the principal courtesy title held by the wife of the Duke of York. Three of the eleven Dukes of York either did not marry or had already assumed the throne prior to marriage, while two of the Dukes married twice; therefore, th ...
(later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), who was represented on this occasion by
Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
Mabell Frances Elizabeth Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie (née Gore; 10 March 1866 – 7 April 1956), was a British courtier and author.
Early life
She was born the eldest daughter of Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, Arthur Gore, Viscount Sudley, and ...
. He was the second son of
Terence Conyngham Plunket, 6th Baron Plunket of Newton and his wife, the former Dorothé Mabel Lewis. Lord and Lady Plunket were killed in an aircraft crash in 1938, and their three sons (Robin Rathmore Plunket,
Patrick Terence William Span Plunket, and Shaun Albert Frederick Sheridan Plunket) were brought up by their father's sister, the Hon. Helen Rhodes.
Education
Robin Rathmore Plunket was educated at
Eton College
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and served in the
Army
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.
Personal life
He married Jennifer Southwell, daughter of Bailey Southwell and his wife, the former Erica Alberta Barry, on 8 November 1951. The Plunkets, who did not have children, lived in
London
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. Lady Plunket died in 2018.
Robin Rathmore Plunket became 8th Baron in 1975 on the death of his elder brother. He sat in the
House of Lords
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on various occasions.
House of Lords Journal
p. 334, 1997-98 Volume 231, Thursday 13 November 1997, retrieved 23 December 2008.
Legacy
On his death, the title passed to his nephew, Tyrone Shaun Terence Plunket (b. 1966), only son of Lord Plunket's youngest brother, the Hon. Shaun Albert Frederick Sheridan Plunket (1931—2012).
See also
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References
External links
1925 births
2013 deaths
People educated at Eton College
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Robin
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Robin may also refer to:
Animals
* Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae
* Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), inclu ...
Younger sons of barons
Rifle Brigade officers
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
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