Charles Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon

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A. J. Langer
(m. 2004;div. 2023)
The Earl of Devon
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Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
as an elected hereditary peer
4 July 2018 (sworn in on 19 July)
Children2
Parent(s) Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon
Diana Watherston
Residence Powderham Castle
Education Eton College
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge
Occupation Barrister

Charles Peregrine Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon [1] (born 14 August 1975), styled as Lord Courtenay from 1998 until 2015, is an English hereditary peer and barrister. He is a crossbench member of the House of Lords, having been elected at a by-election in 2018. [2] [3]

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Education and career

Courteney was educated at Eton College. [1] After obtaining an MA degree from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1997, he followed his legal studies at the Inns of Court School of Law. [1] Courtenay was admitted to the bar at Inner Temple in 1999, [4] and to the California State Bar in 2004. [5]

Personal life

Courteney married the American actress A. J. Langer in a civil ceremony in 2004. [6] A formal wedding later took place on 30 April 2005, in Los Angeles. With his father's death in 2015, the then Lord Courtenay succeeded to his father's peerage and estate, becoming the 19th Earl of Devon. [7]

Courtenay and Langer have two children. [8] [6] Courteney announced that he had filed for divorce in November 2023. [9]

Courtenay practised law with the firm of Latham & Watkins from 2005 to 2018, starting at their Los Angeles, California office. In January 2014, he permanently relocated his family to London and transferred to his firm's London office. [4] In January 2019, he joined the Exeter firm Michelmores as a partner, where he is known as Charles Courtenay. [10] He and his family now reside at the family's ancestral home of Powderham Castle in Devon, England.

Arms

Coat of arms of Courtenay, Earls of Devon [11]
Coat of arms of Courtenay, Earls of Devon.svg
Crest
1st, Out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of seven ostrich feathers four and three argent; 2nd, a dolphin embowed proper.
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st and 4th Or, three torteaux (Courtenay); 2nd and 3rd Or, a lion rampant azure (Redvers, Earls of Devon).
Supporters
Two boars argent, bristled, tusked, and unguled or
Motto
Quod Verum Tutum (What is true is safe)

Ancestry

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Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Devon
2015–present
Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
2018–present
Incumbent