Garret Wellesley, 7th Earl Cowley (30 June 1934 - 17 June 2016) was an English-American banker.
Early life
Wellesley was born in
Nevada
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on 30 June 1934.
He was the son of actor
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley
Lieutenant Christian Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley (25 December 1890 – 29 August 1962), known as Viscount Dangan from 1895 to 1919, was an English aristocrat and actor known by the name Arthur Wellesley.
Early life
Wellesley was born on 25 ...
(1890-1962), and his second wife, Mary Elsie Himes (1906-2003). Before his birth, his father had sold
Draycot House and the Draycot Estate in 1920, at which time it encompassed 4,320 acres. His parents met while his mother "was working as a hat check girl at a road house near Reno" and was divorced from Joseph T. Himes of
San Francisco
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three weeks before their wedding.
In 1935, a forest fire raging over the foothills of the
Sierra Nevada
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threatened his parents' ranch, known as Wellesley Ranch, in Lakeview, about five miles north of
Carson City, Nevada
Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the sixth largest city in Nevada. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the ...
.
From his father's first marriage to actress Mae Picard,
he had an elder half-brother,
Denis Wellesley, 5th Earl Cowley
Denis may refer to:
People
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, who succeeded to their father's titles upon his death in 1962.
His paternal grandparents were
Henry Wellesley, 3rd Earl Cowley
Henry Arthur Mornington Wellesley, 3rd Earl Cowley JP (14 January 1866 – 15 January 1919), styled as ''Viscount Dangan'' between 1884 and 1895, was an English aristocrat.
Early life
Henry was born at Wilton Place, London on 14 January 1866. He ...
and his first wife, Lady Violet Nevill (daughter of
William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny (16 September 1826 – 12 December 1915), styled Viscount Neville between 1845 and 1868 and known as The Earl of Abergavenny between 1868 and 1876, was a British peer.
Background and education
He was ...
).
He graduated from the
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...
in Los Angeles in 1957 and received an
MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
at
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
in 1962.
Career
After USC, Wellesley spent three years in the
Counterintelligence Corps
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of the
U.S. Army
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. After obtaining his MBA, he began a career in finance and banking,
working as an investment analyst with
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California; operational headquarters in Manhattan; and managerial offices throughout the United States and intern ...
between 1962 and 1964, an investment counsellor with
Dodge & Cox
Dodge & Cox is an American mutual fund company, founded in 1930 by Van Duyn Dodge and E. Morris Cox, that provides professional investment management services.
Background
Dodge and Cox specializes in value investing and has been described as ...
from 1964 to 1966, vice-president and investment counsellor with
Thorndike, Doran, Paine & Lewis
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The firm serves as an investment advisor to over ...
from 1967 to 1969 and a senior vice-president with Shareholders Capital Corporation between 1969 and 1974.
In 1975, he unexpectedly succeeded to his title after his nephew,
Richard
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, died aged just 29.
He continued to work in finance as group vice-president with
Bank of America
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in London, between 1978 and 1985 and then as independent financial advisor between until 1990 before becoming an investment partner with Thomas R. Miller & Son in
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He also took his seat in the
House of Lords
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Personal life
Lord Cowley was married four times. His first marriage was on 16 September 1960 to Elizabeth Suzanne Lennon, a daughter of Haynes Lennon of
South Carolina
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. Before their divorce in 1966, they were the parents of two children:
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, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 937.
* Lady Elizabeth ''Tara'' Lennon Wellesley (b. 1962), an artist.
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''Garret'' Graham Wellesley, 8th Earl Cowley (b. 1965), who co-founded the peer-to-peer lending firm Wellesley & Co.; he married Claire L. Brighton, only daughter of Peter W Brighton of
Stowbridge
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, in 1990.
He was married to Isabelle O'Bready of
Sherbrooke
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,
Quebec
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from 1968 to 1981 and to Paige Deming, a daughter of Joseph Grove Deming of
Reno, Nevada
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from 1981, with whom he adopted "several daughters."
* Lady Sarah Paige Wellesley, who married Frank Mosier, eldest son of Frank Mosier of
Saratoga, New York
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After the death of his third wife in 2008, Lord Cowley married Carola Marion Stormonth ( Erskine-Hill) Darling (b. 1943) on 15 February 2012. The widow of Capt. Robin Andrew Stormonth Darling, Carola was the eldest daughter of
Sir Robert Erskine-Hill, 2nd Baronet and the former Christine Alison Johnstone (only daughter of Capt. Henry James Johnstone). From her first marriage to
Sir Richard Brooke, 11th Baronet, which ended in divorce, she is the mother of
Sir Richard Brooke, 12th Baronet.
[Peter W. Hammond, editor, ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda'' (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 214]
Lord Cowley died on Friday, 17 June 2016 after a short illness. His funeral was held in London and he was succeeded in the title by his son,
Graham
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References
External links
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1934 births
2016 deaths
University of Southern California alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Garret Wellesley, 7th Earl Cowley
Garret Wellesley, 7th Earl Cowley (30 June 1934 - 17 June 2016) was an English-American banker.
Early life
Wellesley was born in Nevada on 30 June 1934. He was the son of actor Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley (1890-1962), and his second wife, M ...
Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom