Francis Ronald Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland (born 18 February 1940), known as Francis Ronald Egerton until 2000, is a British peer from the

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Family

Sutherland is the son of Cyril Reginald Egerton, the grandson of

Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere VD, DL, JP (5 April 1847 – 13 July 1914),''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. styled Viscount Brackley between 1857 and 1862, was a British peer, ...

. His mother was Mary, daughter of Sir Ronald Campbell.thepeerage.com Francis Ronald Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland
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and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester (Gloucestershire).

Career

On 21 July 2000, Sutherland succeeded his first cousin once-removed as 7th Duke of Sutherland and 6th

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. Most of Sutherland's wealth is in the form of the

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put together by the first Duke's uncle,

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, which had been inherited by the Ellesmere line of the family. In 2008 he sold

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's ''

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'' to the

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and National Gallery in London for £50 million. He ranked 107th in the ''Sunday Times'' Rich List 2009, with an estimated wealth of £480m in art and land, including Mertoun House and Stetchworth House. In the 2020 edition of the list, his net worth was estimated to be £585 million.

Marriage and issue

Sutherland married Victoria Mary Williams, born in Newbury on 21 June 1946, daughter of

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Edward Alexander Wilmot Williams and wife Sybilla Margaret Archdale, in Wintermore Monkton on 11 May 1971/1974. They have two sons: * James Granville Egerton, Marquess of Stafford (born

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, 12 August 1975), who is married to Barbara Ruth Schneider. They have four daughters: ** Lady Isabelle Victoria Egerton (born 10 December 2007) ** Lady Louise Anna Egerton (born 7 January 2010) ** Lady Violet Mary Egerton (born 11 November 2011) ** Lady Charlotte Mabel Ellesmere Egerton (born 26 March 2015) * Lord Henry Alexander Egerton (born 28 February 1977), who is married to Harriet Carter. They have three daughters: ** Beatrice Georgina Egerton (born 7 June 2005) ** Fenella Sybilla Egerton (born 18 January 2008) ** Rose Evelyn Egerton (born 20 March 2011)

Arms

References

* "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage" * "Who's Who in Austria 1961" * "Fluchtpunkt England", Reinhard Müller, 1996 * http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/u/Harry-M-Stuart/PDFGENEO5.pdf

External links

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