George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born 6 June 1961), styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is a British peer and businessman.

Biography

Family

Lord Milford Haven is the elder son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Janet Mercedes Bryce, the older brother of

Lord Ivar Mountbatten Lord Ivar Alexander Michael Mountbatten, DL (born 9 March 1963) is a British aristocrat, farmer, geologist and businessman. He is a former director of SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. Although he is not a member of the Br ...

and a descendant of

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Catherine the Great , en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anhal ...

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, and Abram Gannibal. At the death of his father on 14 April 1970, he became the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and head of the House of Mountbatten. He is second cousin to

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through both of their fathers. Lord Milford Haven married first Sarah Georgina Walker (born

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Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

, 17 November 1961/2), former wife of Andreas Antoniou (married 1985; divorced 1987), daughter of

George Alfred Walker George Alfred Walker (14 April 1929 – 22 March 2011) was a British businessman and founder of Brent Walker. Early life Born in Stepney, London, Walker was the son of William James Walker, a brewery worker, drayman at Watneys brewery, and ...

and Jean Maureen (''née'' Hatton), in London on 8 March 1989. The couple were divorced on 27 February 1996 and she married in June 2016

Michael Spencer Michael Alan Spencer, Baron Spencer of Alresford (born 30 May 1955), sometimes known as "Spens", is a British billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of NEX Group, a UK-based business focused on electronic markets and post- ...

, Lord Spencer of Alresford. They had two children: * Lady Tatiana Helen Georgia Mountbatten (born London, 16 April 1990) who works in public relations. She married on 23 July 2022, at Winchester Cathedral, Alexander 'Alick' Bernard Molyneux Dru (born 1991), son of Bernard Auberon Alexander Dru and Catherine Margaret Norden (and great-grandson of Colonel Aubrey Herbert, great-great-grandson of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon and of John Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci and great-nephew by marriage of Evelyn Waugh). * Henry (Harry) David Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (born 19 October 1991) Lord Milford Haven subsequently married Clare Husted Steel (born

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, 2 September 1960) at

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, Nantucket County,

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, on 20 August 1997, without issue.

Career

In 2000, he founded

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, a website which helps consumers compare and change suppliers of various services. The company was sold to the American media firm

E. W. Scripps Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press new ...

in March 2006 for around £210 million ($400 million). He plays

polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...

, and Julian Hipwood has coached his teams. He won the

Queen's Cup The Queen's Cup was an annual football cup competition in Thailand, run by the Football Association of Thailand. The competition was named after Queen Sirikit. It was first contested in 1970, with Bangkok Bank and Royal Thai Air Force joint win ...

with the Broncos team in 1988 and reached the 2006 final.

Arms

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Milford Haven, George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess Of 1961 births Living people

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British people of German descent British people of Russian descent British people of Peruvian descent People educated at Heatherdown School British businesspeople English polo players English people of German descent English people of Russian descent English people of Peruvian descent Marquesses of Milford Haven