Lady Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Tadgell (''née'' Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; born 24 January 1935), previously
Marchioness of Bristol, is a British heiress, race horse breeder, and landowner. She consistently appears on the
''Sunday Times'' Rich List with an estimated net worth of £45 million, based on family assets she inherited in 1948.
Early life and education
Lady Juliet was born to
Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, the only son of the
7th Earl Fitzwilliam, and his wife, Olive Plunket. Through her mother, Juliet is a granddaughter of
Benjamin Plunket,
Bishop of Meath
The Bishop of Meath is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient Kingdom of Meath. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with another bishopric.
History
Unt ...
, and a great-granddaughter of
Lord Plunket
Baron Plunket, of Newtown in the County of Cork, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for the prominent Irish lawyer and Whig politician William Plunket. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1830 ...
,
Archbishop of Dublin.
In 1943, when she was eight, her father inherited the title of
Earl Fitzwilliam
Earl Fitzwilliam (or FitzWilliam) was a title in both the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of Great Britain held by the head of the Fitzwilliam family (later Wentworth-Fitzwilliam).
History
The Fitzwilliams acquired extensive holdings in th ...
, and she became Lady Juliet. By this time, her parents' marriage was strained, and there was talk of divorce. In 1948, Earl Fitzwilliam died in a plane crash in France with his lover,
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (' Kennedy; February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948), also known as "Kick" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy as well as a si ...
, the widow of
the heir to the
Dukedom of Devonshire and a sister of the future U. S. President
John F. Kennedy
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. As her father's only child, Lady Juliet, still aged only thirteen, inherited his whole
unentailed estate and his huge art collection. The following year, she and her mother left
Wentworth Woodhouse
Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. The building has ...
, and most of its contents were sold.
[Lady Juliet also owned a large estate in Ireland, Coolattin Park, situated outside the village of Shillelagh in County Wicklow, which had been the seat of the Fitzwilliam family in Ireland since the 17th century. That was sold in 1977, and the famous "Tomnafinogue wood", one of the largest ancient oak woodlands in the British Isles and part of the former Coolattin Estate, is now under state ownershi]
The DiCamillo Companion
Lady Juliet holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
.
Marriages and family life
In 1960, Lady Juliet married
Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, twenty years her senior, eighteen days after he inherited his title upon
his father's death. He had been divorced the previous year and, in his twenties, had been adjudicated a
bankrupt
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, declared the "No.1 Playboy of Mayfair", and gaoled for jewel robbery. The couple had two children:
*
Lord Nicholas Hervey (26 November 1961 – 26 January 1998)
* Lady Anne Hervey (26 February 1965), stillborn
The couple separated in 1965 and divorced in 1972.
In 1974 she married
Somerset de Chair, who was a former
Conservative
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Member of Parliament for
South West Norfolk and
Paddington South. The couple had one child:
* Helena Anne Beatrice Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair (b. October 1977), a writer on a trade magazine for the oil industry. She married the
Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg, future
Conservative
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politician and son of former ''
Times
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Time or times may also refer to:
Temporal measurement
* Time in physics, defined by its measurement
* Time standard, civil time speci ...
'' editor
Lord Rees-Mogg
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 192829 December 2012) was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of ''The Times'' from 1967 to 1981. In the late 1970s, he served as High Sheriff of Somerset, and in the 1980s was Chairman of th ...
, on 13 January 2007 at
Canterbury Cathedral. They have six children.
After her second husband's death, in 1997, Lady Juliet married thirdly the architectural historian
Christopher Tadgell and lives with him at her estate of
Bourne Park, near
Canterbury
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of ...
,
Kent
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.
Her daughter Helena attended the
University of Bristol
, mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'')
, established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter
, type ...
, and her son Nicholas was educated at
Eton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...
, followed by
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
.
On 26 January 1998, two days after her 63rd birthday, her son Nicholas committed suicide.
Wealth and inheritance
As the only child of the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, Lady Juliet inherited his estates, which have since passed into a trust for her benefit, and include his vast art collection, including seven paintings by
George Stubbs
George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds, Reynold ...
and six by
Anthony van Dyck and properties in England, Ireland and the United States. She consistently makes
''the Sunday Times'' Rich List, rising
in 2009 to 1550th in the ranking with
£35 million, although she suffered a £10 million drop that year because of the recession. She ran a
stud farm
A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock. The word " stud" comes from the Old English ''stod'' meaning "herd of horses, place where horses are kept for breeding". Historically, documentation ...
and continues to own some racehorses.
Ancestry
References
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1935 births
Living people
Daughters of British earls
Daughters of Irish earls
Bristol, Juliet Hervey, Marchioness of
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