Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Wharncliffe (23 March 1935 – 3 June 1987), known as Viscount Carlton from birth until 1953, was a British landowner and peer, a member of the
House of Lords
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from 1956 until his death.
The only son of
, and his wife Lady Elfrida Wentworth Fitzwilliam, daughter of the
7th Earl Fitzwilliam, he was educated at
Eton College
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. He had four older sisters, one of whom married
Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle.
[''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (Debrett's Peerage Limited, 2008), p. 1,055]
In 1953, Lord Carlton joined the Royal Navy as an
able seaman
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, serving until 1953, when he succeeded as
Earl of Wharncliffe
Earl of Wharncliffe, in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
History
The earldom was created in 1876 for Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Baron Wharncliffe. He was a descendan ...
, Viscount Carlton, of
Carlton, Yorkshire, and Baron Wharncliffe of
Wortley, all in the
peerage of the United Kingdom
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. He was subsequently a drummer in a rock band, a motor mechanic, a publican and salesman.
[“Wharncliffe, 4th Earl of, (Alan James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie) (23 March 1935–3 June 1987)”]
''Who’s Who'', online edition, 1 December 2007, accessed 9 January 2023
Although his father had sold
Wortley Hall
Wortley Hall is a stately home in the small South Yorkshire village of Wortley, located south of Barnsley, England. For more than six decades the hall has been chiefly associated with the British Labour movement. It is currently used by several ...
, Wharncliffe inherited the Wharncliffe estate.
[History of The Stuart Montagu Wortley Mackenzie Family]
wharncliffeestates.co.uk, accessed 8 January 2023
On 25 July 1957, Wharncliffe married Aline Margaret Bruce, a daughter of Robert Fernie Dunlop Bruce, of Dyson Holmes House, Wharncliffe, and they had two daughters:
[
*Lady Joanna Margaret Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (1959–1981), who was killed in a road accident at the age of 21;][
*Lady Rowena Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (born 1961), who in 1986 married John Hunt, son of Dr. G. H. Hunt. They took the name of Wortley-Hunt and have two children, Somerset Carlton Gerald Wortley-Hunt (born 1987) and Fleur Aline Isabel Montagu Stuart Wortley-Hunt (born 1989),][ but later divorced.][
Wharncliffe died on 3 June 1987 at Wharncliffe House, ]Wortley, South Yorkshire
Wortley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 579, increasing to 626 at the 2011 Census. Wortley is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as '' ...
, and was buried at St. Leonard's Church, Wortley.
He was succeeded in his peerages by
an American cousin, Richard Montagu Stuart Wortley, a grandson of Ralph Granville Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (1864–1927), a younger brother of the second earl.[ However, he separated the peerages from the estate, leaving it to his immediate family.][ In July 1987, the 5th Earl, a construction foreman from ]Cumberland, Maine
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History
Cumberla ...
, arrived in Yorkshire as a tourist, to visit the family seat, which he had never seen. He commented “I am just an ordinary guy.”U.S. Earl In England To See Family Seat
AP News
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, 30 July 1987, accessed 8 January 2023
The estate was ultimately inherited by Lady Rowena Wortley-Hunt, who took it over on her mother’s death in 2001.[
]
Notes
External links
Alan James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Wharncliffe
at National Portrait Gallery, London
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