Charles Fortescue, 8th Earl Fortescue

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Charles Hugh Richard Fortescue

Born (1951-05-10) 10 May 1951 (age 72)
Education Eton College
Spouse
Julia B. Sowrey
(m. 1974)
Children3 daughters
Parents

Charles Hugh Richard Fortescue, 8th Earl Fortescue (born 10 May 1951) is a British peer and landowner. He was a hereditary member of the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999.

The son of Richard Fortescue, 7th Earl Fortescue, and his wife Penelope Jane Henderson, he was educated at Eton College. [1]

On 7 March 1993, Fortescue succeeded to his father's peerages, Earl Fortescue and Viscount Ebrington (1789) and Baron Fortescue (1746), all in the peerage of Great Britain. [1] This at the time gave him a seat in the House of Lords as of right, but in the event he did not take it up until December 1995, and in November 1999 it came to an end, as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999. [2]

On 12 December 1974, Fortescue married Julia B. Sowrey, daughter of Air Commodore John Adam Sowrey, and they had three daughters: [1]

In 2003, Fortescue was reported in Burke's Peerage to have his country seat at Ebrington Manor, Ebrington, Gloucestershire. [1]

The heir presumptive to the peerages is a cousin, John Andrew Francis Fortescue (born 1955). [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Burke's Peerage , volume 1 (2003), p. 1472
  2. Earl of Fortescue, members.parliament.uk, accessed 30 January 2023
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Earl Fortescue
1993present
Incumbent

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