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'' Francesco Alvaro Maria Giorgio dei Principi Ruspoli (April 19, 1891 – March 2, 1970) was an Italian

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, the 1st Duca di Morignano, Nobile di

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, Patrizio Romano and

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. Born in Rome, he was the son of

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and third wife Josephine Mary Beers-Curtis.

Education

Francesco was tutored as a boy by the Englishman Eustace Virgo, who dedicated his second novel ''Honour Lost, All Lost: A Mystery of Modern Rome'' (written under the pseudonym E. V. de Fontmell) to him. Francesco was the unrequited love of his life. Through the good offices of his friend

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, Virgo arranged for Francesco and his young brother to attend

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. Francesco was at Eton (where the boys called him 'Frank Ruspoli') from September 1904 to December 1909, in R S de Havilland's house. His brother Eugenio was in the same house from September 1907 to July 1912. Partly through the agency of Eustace Virgo, Francesco was once offered the throne of Albania.

Marriage and child

He married in

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, January 27, 1920 Josepha Giuseppina Pia dei Conti di Brazzà-Cergneu-Savorgnan (

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, September 27, 1898 –

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, April 29, 1992), Nobile Romana and Patrizia Sabina, by whom he had an only son: * Galeazzo Maria Alvise Emanuele Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Morignano.

Cultural and charitable interests

* President of Italian Golf Federation (1944 – 1968). * President of

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. * President of Olgiata Golf Club (1961 – 1964).Olgiata Golf Club
* Member of

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References

External links

Francesco Alvaro Maria Giorgio Ruspoli on a genealogical site
Count Ascanio di Brazzà-Cergneu-Savorgnan and wife dei Marchesi Simonetti

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Education

Marriage and child

Cultural and charitable interests

See also

References

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