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Robin Rathmore Plunket, 8th

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(3 December 1925 – 16 November 2013), was a descendant of prominent

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lawyer and Whig politician William Conyngham Plunket for whom the

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of the

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(not of

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) was created in 1827. Plunket was christened on 1 February 1926 at St Saviour's Church, Walton Street, London. His godmother was his parents' friend, the

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(later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), who was represented on this occasion by

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. He was the second son of Terence Conyngham Plunket, 6th Baron Plunket of Newton and his wife, the former Dorothé Mabel Lewis. Lord and Lady Plunket were killed in an aircraft crash in 1938, and their three sons (Robin Rathmore Plunket, Patrick Terence William Span Plunket, and Shaun Albert Frederick Sheridan Plunket) were brought up by their father's sister, the Hon. Helen Rhodes.

Education

Robin Rathmore Plunket was educated at

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and served in the

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Personal life

He married Jennifer Southwell, daughter of Bailey Southwell and his wife, the former Erica Alberta Barry, on 8 November 1951. The Plunkets, who did not have children, lived in

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. Lady Plunket died in 2018. Robin Rathmore Plunket became 8th Baron in 1975 on the death of his elder brother. He sat in the

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on various occasions.House of Lords Journal
p. 334, 1997-98 Volume 231, Thursday 13 November 1997, retrieved 23 December 2008.

Legacy

On his death, the title passed to his nephew, Tyrone Shaun Terence Plunket (b. 1966), only son of Lord Plunket's youngest brother, the Hon. Shaun Albert Frederick Sheridan Plunket (1931—2012).

References

External links

Profile at thepeerage.com

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