Randal Alexander McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim DL (born 2 July 1967), previously known as Viscount Dunluce, is a Northern Irish landowner, with an estate based at Glenarm Castle, and a City of London businessman, chairman of Sarasin & Partners LLP a subsidiary of J. Safra Sarasin. He is also a Deputy Lieutenant of County Antrim.
The only son of Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim, [1] and a grandson of the sculptor Angela Sykes, [2] the present Lord Antrim was educated at Gresham's School and Worcester College, Oxford, [3] [4] where he graduated in Modern History. [5] He is the brother of Lady Flora McDonnell and a nephew of the artist Hector McDonnell. [3] [6]
After Oxford, Dunluce, as he then was, embarked on a career in asset management in the City of London. In 1992, when he was twenty-five, his father put him in charge of the Glenarm Castle estate, and in that role he invested in Glenarm Shorthorn Beef, Glenarm Organic Salmon and hydroelectric power. [5] Glenarm Castle was first built in 1603 by Antrim’s ancestor Randal MacSorley MacDonnell. [7] [8]
He was an investment manager at NCL Investments from 1993 to 1997. In 1998 he began to work at Sarasin & Partners LLP, where he has been chairman since 2008, [4] [9] taking responsibility for the investment mandates of the firm’s largest customers and its charitable endowments. He managed the creation of the Sarrasin presence in Dublin and is also a non-executive director of Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC. [10] In 2002, he was a member of three London clubs, the Savile, the Turf, and the Beefsteak. [11]
In December 2013, as Dunluce, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for County Antrim. [12] [13]
When his father died on 21 July 2021, Antrim inherited the earldom, subsidiary titles and estates. [2]
In November 2021, Antrim, Edwin Poots, and local children planted the first trees of 350 hectares of new native woodland on Antrim’s estate at Glenarm Forest. Poots, who was then Northern Ireland's Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, announced this as Northern Ireland's first Queen's Commonwealth Canopy forest conservation project. [14]
Lord Antrim married Aurora Gunn in 2004. [4] Lady Antrim is a documentary filmmaker and member of the board of the Royal Parks. [15]
They have two children:
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Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally of Scottish origins.
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Randall MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim (1609–1683) was a Roman Catholic landed magnate in Scotland and Ireland, son of the 1st Earl of Antrim. He was also chief of Clan MacDonnell of Antrim. He is best known for his involvement, mostly on the Royalist side, in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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Glenarm Castle, Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is the ancestral home of the Earl of Antrim.
Events from the year 1620 in Ireland.
Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of AntrimPC (Ire) was a Catholic peer and military commander in Ireland. He fought together with his brother Randal on the losing side in the Irish Confederate Wars (1641–1653); and then, having succeeded his brother as the 3rd Earl of Antrim in 1683, fought in the Williamite War (1688–1691), on the losing side again. Twice he forfeited his lands and twice he regained them.
The history of the Bissett family in Ireland can be studied independently from that of the originally identical family in Scotland, because of their unique experience following their arrival in Ulster in the early or mid-13th century. Here, while still remaining involved in Scottish affairs, the Bissetts would establish themselves as the Lords of the Glens of Antrim and quickly become equally, then eventually more involved in the politics of the Irish province, becoming among the most Gaelicised of all the so-called Anglo-Norman families in Ireland. The heads of the leading branch of the family soon adopted the Gaelic lineage style Mac Eoin Bissett, by which they are known in the Irish annals, and which translates as "Son/Descendant of John Byset", after a prominent ancestor born in Scotland. In a number of English and Anglo-Norman sources the same head of the family is referred to as the Baron Bissett, also with variants.
Randal William MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim KB was an Irish peer.
Randal MacDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim (1680–1721) was an Irish aristocrat.
Ellis MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim was an Irish aristocrat of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart eras.
Randal John Somerled McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim KBE (1911–1977) was a diplomat, activist, soldier and administrator. He became chairman of the National Trust in 1965.
Angela Christina MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim, also known as Angela Antrim, was Countess of Antrim, a sculptor, a cartoonist, and an illustrator.
The Hon. Hector John McDonnell is a Northern Irish painter, etcher, and author, specializing in architectural art, landscape, and portrait work.
Randal Mark Kerr McDonnell, 7th Earl of Antrim DL (1878–1933) was an Irish landowner and peer, known as Viscount Dunluce until 1918.
