Guy Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick

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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Warwick
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Lord Warwick in 1997
Born
Guy David Greville

(1957-01-30) 30 January 1957 (age 68)
Marylebone, London, England [1]
OccupationPeer
Political party Crossbench [2]
Spouses
Susan McKinley Cobbold
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(m. 1981;div. 1992)​
Louisa Heenan
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(m. 1996)​
Children2
Parents
Relatives

Guy David Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick, 9th Earl Brooke (born 30 January 1957) is a British peer. He was a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 1996 to 1999. [3]

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Greville was styled as Lord Brooke from 1984. On 20 January 1996, he succeeded his father as Earl of Warwick, Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle, and Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court. [4]

Early life

Guy David Greville was born in a nursing home in Marylebone, London, England, on 30 January 1957, [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] as the elder child to David Greville, 8th Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Sarah Anne Chester Greville, Lady Brooke (née Beatty), a socialite and former fashion model. His younger sister is Lady Charlotte Anne Greville. [10] [11] [12] [13] His parents divorced when he was 10 years old. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]

Greville often enjoyed play dates at Warwick Castle [20] with his maternal cousin, Annabelle Neilson, a socialite, during his childhood. [21] [22] His maternal great-grandfather was the American mining magnate Alfred Chester Beatty (the "King of Copper"). [23] His paternal grandfather was Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick. [24] When he was 14, his mother married the Polish prince and architect Kasimir Korybut, divorcing three years later. [25] [26] When he was 18, his mother married her third husband, the racehorse trainer Harry Thomson Jones. He gained a stepsister and two stepbrothers. [27]

Lord Warwick was educated at Eton College and the École des Roches in France. [28]

Career

Lord Warwick made a career in mining and property in Australia, where he was a founding shareholder in Windimurra Vanadium, serving as a director of the company from 1991 to 2009. [29]

Warwick was chairman of Central Asia Resources from 2008 to 2013. [29]

Personal life

In 1979, the future Lord Warwick's sister married Andrew Fraser, the youngest son of the 15th Lord Lovat. They had two daughters together, Daisy Rosamond (born 1985) and Laura Alfreda (born 1987). [30] On 15 March 1994, his brother-in-law was killed in Tanzania by a charging buffalo. [31]

Lord Warwick married his first wife, Susan McKinley "Susie" Cobbold (née Wilson), daughter of George William McKinley Wilson, of Melbourne, Australia, in 1981. Cobbold is 11 years his senior. Their only child, a son and the heir apparent, Charles Fulke Chester Greville, Lord Brooke, [32] was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 27 July 1982. [33] Upon this marriage, he gained two stepchildren from his wife's former marriage to Nicholas Sydney Cobbold. The couple later separated and their divorce was finalised in 1992. [34] [28]

Warwick married his second wife, Louisa Heenan, daughter of Dr Peter Heenan, of Perth, in Westminster, Greater London, on 2 December 1996. Heenan is nine years his junior. Their only child, a son, Rudolf Maxwell Guy Greville, was born in Perth on 7 December 2003 and has since received international acclaim for his rakishly handsome looks. [35]

On 9 July 2014, portraits that used to hang on the walls of Warwick Castle [36] were sold as part of an auction of Old Masters at Sotheby's. The artwork, estimated to be worth in excess of £5M, were owned by Lord Warwick. [37] His father had sold Warwick Castle and many of its contents to The Tussauds Group in 1978, reportedly as a 99-year lease. [38] The castle was then converted from private residence (although open to the public) to a major visitor attraction. [39]

References

  1. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007: JAN 1957 5d 442a MARYLEBONE — Guy D Greville
  2. ↑ "Preamble (Hansard, 24 October 1996)". UK Parliament. 24 October 1996. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "Earl of Brooke and Warwick". UK Parliament. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "Earls of Warwick". Warwick Castle. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  5. ↑ "page 4". Newspapers.com. Evening Standard. 31 January 1957. Retrieved 15 March 2025. The birth of a son in London to Lady Brooke is announced today. Lady Brooke, formerly Miss Sarah Chester Beatty, married Lord Brooke, 22-year-old heir of the Earl of Warwick, last year.
  6. ↑ "page 5". Newspapers.com. The Birmingham Post. 31 January 1957. Retrieved 15 March 2025. A SON was born to Lord and Lady Brooke in a London nursing home yesterday. The news was sent to Warwick last night by Lord Brooke, who said both the mother and baby were doing well.
  7. ↑ "page 13". Newspapers.com. Birmingham Evening Mail. 31 January 1957. Retrieved 15 March 2025. The Mayor of Warwick (Councillor E. R. Bartlett) today sent a greetings telegram to Lord and Lady Brooke at their London home, congratu-lating them on the birth of a son.
  8. ↑ "page 15". Newspapers.com. Coventry Evening Telegraph. 31 January 1957. Retrieved 15 March 2025. News was received in Warwick last night of the birth, in a London nursing home, of a son to Lord and Lady Brooke, who were married last year. Lady Brooke and the baby were stated to be progressing well.
    The Mayor of Warwick, Coun-cillor E. R. Bartlett, to-day sent a greetings telegram to Lord and Lady Brooke, at their London address, 87, Chesterfield House, Chesterfield Gardens, W.1. It read: "Heartiest congratulations on the birth of a son, from the Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Warwick."
  9. ↑ "page 6". Newspapers.com. The Daily Telegraph. 31 January 1957. Retrieved 15 March 2025. Lady Brooke gave birth to a son in a London nursing home yester-day.
  10. ↑ "page 3". Newspapers.com. Evening Standard. 7 June 1958. Retrieved 15 March 2025. Lady Brooke, daughter of copper magnate Mr. Alfred Chester Beatty, gave birth to a daughter in a London nursing home last night, it was announced today.
    She married Lord Brooke, heir to the Earl of Warwick, in 1956. They are both 24 and have an 18-month-old son.
  11. ↑ "page 9". Newspapers.com. Coventry Evening Telegraph. 7 June 1958. Retrieved 15 March 2025. It was announced at Warwick Castle today that Lady Brooke, wife of Lord Brooke, heir to the Earl of Warwick, gave birth to a daughter in a London nursing home last night.
    This is Lord and Lady Brooke's second child as they have a son 18 months old. Before her marriage Lady Brooke was Miss Sarah Chester-Beatty.
  12. ↑ "page 11". Newspapers.com. Nottingham Evening News. 7 June 1958. Retrieved 15 March 2025. Lady Brooke, wife of Lord Brooke, son and heir to the Earl of Warwick, gave birth to a daughter in a London nursing home last night, it was announced at Warwick Castle today.
    This is Lord and Lady Brooke's second child. They have a son born in January 1957. Before her marriage Lady Brooke was Miss Sarah Chester Beatty.
  13. ↑ "page 2". Newspapers.com. Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph. 7 June 1958. Retrieved 15 March 2025. Lady Brooke, wife of Lord Brooke, son and heir to the Earl of Warwick, gave birth to a daughter in a London nursing home last night, it was announced at Warwick Castle today.
  14. ↑ "Apr 13, 1967, page 21 - Birmingham Evening Mail at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 13 April 1967. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  15. ↑ "Apr 14, 1967, page 5 - Daily Mirror at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 14 April 1967. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  16. ↑ "Apr 14, 1967, page 17 - The Daily Telegraph at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 14 April 1967. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  17. ↑ "Jul 10, 1967, page 12 - Daily News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 10 July 1967. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  18. ↑ "Jul 11, 1967, page 6 - Syracuse Herald-Journal at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 11 July 1967. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  19. ↑ "Jul 12, 1967, page 37 - The Washington Daily News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 12 July 1967. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  20. ↑ "Official Warwick Castle website: Best Price Guaranteed". Warwick Castle. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  21. ↑ "Annabelle Neilson, muse for Alexander McQueen, dies". BBC News. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  22. ↑ "Remembering the entertainment and arts figures we lost in 2018". BBC News. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  23. ↑ "SARAH BEATTY FIANCEE; Engaged to Lord Brooke, Son of the Earl of Warwick". The New York Times. 28 June 1956. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  24. ↑ "The Earl of Warwick". The Herald. 27 January 1996. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  25. ↑ "Apr 30, 1971, page 10 - Daily News at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 30 April 1971. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  26. ↑ "May 11, 1971, page 12 - Daily News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. 11 May 1971. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  27. ↑ "Tom Jones". The Telegraph. 7 December 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  28. 1 2 Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage , Volume XIV (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 115
  29. 1 2 "Guy D Greville". Business News. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  30. ↑ "Lady Lovat". The Herald. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  31. ↑ "Lord Lovat's son is killed on safari". The Herald. 17 March 1994. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  32. ↑ "Earl of Warwick's heir to marry". WarwickshireWorld. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  33. ↑ "page 13". Newspapers.com. Birmingham Evening Mail. 20 August 1982. Retrieved 15 March 2025. A possible future Earl of Warwick has been born in Perth, Western Australia, the latest in line to the 236-year-old title.
    The baby, Charles, is the son of Guy Greville, aged 25, who married Australian Susie Cob-bold, a year ago. Guy is involved in a soft drinks business in Perth.
    Guy's father, Lord Brooke, lives in France. Lord Brooke's father, the present Earl of Warwick, lives in Italy.
  34. ↑ "page 18". Newspapers.com. Sunday Mercury. 6 October 1996. Retrieved 15 March 2025. Guy upset his parents in 1981 by marrying Australian divorcee Susie Cobbold, who was 11 years older and had two children from her first husband.
    The couple divorced four years ago.
  35. ↑ Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Warwick, Earl of". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 3515–3519. ISBN   978-1-999767-0-5-1.
  36. ↑ "Christmas at the Castle: Did you know these facts about Warwick Castle?". ITVX. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  37. ↑ "Warwick treasures set to be going, going, gone". WarwickshireWorld. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  38. ↑ Thomas Jr, Robert Mcg. (24 January 1996). "Earl of Warwick, 61, Who Sold His Castle to Madame Tussauds". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  39. ↑ Historic England. "Warwick Castle (333577)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 15 March 2025.
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