William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl of Westmeath (born 21 November 1928) is an

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peer and a former soldier and schoolmaster. The son of Gilbert Charles Nugent, 12th Earl of Westmeath, and his wife Doris Imlach, Nugent was born at Flowerhill House, Tynagh,

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, and educated at

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, and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst. From there he was commissioned into the

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and retired in 1961 with the rank of Captain.''Tynagh Millennium Review'' (Tynagh & District Development Society Ltd., 2000) (pp. 42–45) He was subsequently employed as a

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at St Andrew's School,

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, from 1961 to 1988.Patrick W. Montague-Smith, ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 1980), p. 200: "William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl... Assist. Master, St Andrew's Sch., Pangbourne". He succeeded to his father's titles on the latter's death in 1971. In 1963, he married Susanna Margaret Leonard of

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, a daughter of James C. B. W. Leonard, a Circuit court judge, and they had two sons: * Sean Charles Weston Nugent, Lord Delvin born 16 February 1965 * Hon. Patrick Mark Leonard Nugent, born 6 April 1966

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