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 Lord 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]
As Lord Dunluce, Antrim married Aurora Gunn in 2004. [4] They have a son (born 2006) and a daughter (born 2008), both at school in England. [5] Lady Antrim is a documentary filmmaker and member of the board of the Royal Parks. [12]
In December 2013, as Dunluce, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for County Antrim. [13] [14]
When his father died on 21 July 2021, Antrim inherited his peerages 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’Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, announced this as Northern Ireland's first Queen's Commonwealth Canopy forest conservation project. [15]
Somhairle Buíodh MacDonnell, also spelt as MacDonald, was a Gaelic chief, the son of Alexander Carragh MacDonnell, 5th of Dunnyveg, of Dunyvaig Castle, lord of Islay and Cantire, and Catherine, daughter of the Lord of Ardnamurchan, both in Scotland. MacDonnell is best known for establishing the MacDonnell clan in Antrim, Ireland, and resisting the campaign of Shane O'Neill and the English crown to expel the clan from Ireland. Sorley Boy's connection to other Irish Roman Catholic lords was complicated, but also culturally and familiarly strong: for example, he married Mary O'Neill, the daughter of Conn O'Neill. He is also known in English as Somerled and Somerled of the yellow hair.
Marquess of Downshire is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1789 for Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, a former Secretary of State.
Marquess of Donegall is a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the head of the Chichester family, originally from Devon, England. Sir John Chichester sat as a Member of Parliament and was High Sheriff of Devon in 1557. One of his sons, Sir Arthur Chichester, was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1605 to 1616. In 1613, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Chichester, of Belfast in County Antrim. He died childless in 1625 when the barony became extinct.
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.
Baron O'Neill, of Shane's Castle in the County of Antrim, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1868 for the musical composer The Reverend William O'Neill. Born William Chichester, he succeeded to the estates of his cousin John Bruce Richard O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill, in 1855 and assumed by Royal licence the surname of O'Neill in lieu of Chichester in order to inherit the lands of his cousin, despite not being descended in the male line from an O'Neill. The Chichesters trace their lineage to the name O'Neill through Mary Chichester, daughter of Henry O'Neill of Shane's Castle. Lord O'Neill was the patrilineal great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall. The latter two were both nephews of Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, and grandsons of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester. Lord O'Neill was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Antrim.
Glenarm is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies on the North Channel coast north of the town of Larne and the village of Ballygalley, and south of the village of Carnlough. It is situated in the civil parish of Tickmacrevan and the historic barony of Glenarm Lower. It is part of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and had a population of 568 people in the 2011 Census. Glenarm takes its name from the glen in which it lies, the southernmost of the nine Glens of Antrim.
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.
Randall MacSorley MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim, PC (Ire), rebelled together with Tyrone and Tyrconnell in the Nine Years' War but having succeeded his brother, Sir James mac Sorley MacDonnell, as Lord of the Route and the Glynns in 1601, he submitted to Mountjoy, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, in 1602.
A list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Antrim, located in Northern Ireland.
Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim,, known as Alexander Dunluce, was a landowner, peer, artist, and art restorer.
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) (1615–1699) 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.
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.
