William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl of Westmeath (born 21 November 1928) is an
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...
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,
County Galway
"Righteousness and Justice"
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, and educated at
Marlborough College
Marlborough College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Independent school (United Kingdom), independent boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church ...
,
Wiltshire
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, and at
Royal Military College,
Sandhurst. From there he was commissioned into the
Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...
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
schoolmaster
The word schoolmaster, or simply master, refers to a male school teacher. This usage survives in British independent schools, both secondary and preparatory, and a few Indian boarding schools (such as The Doon School) that were modelled after B ...
at
St Andrew's School,
Pangbourne
Pangbourne is a large village and civil parish on the River Thames in Berkshire, England. Pangbourne has its own shops, schools, a railway station on the Great Western main line and a village hall. Outside its grouped developed area is an in ...
, 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
Sutton Courtenay
Sutton Courtenay is a village and civil parish on the River Thames south of Abingdon-on-Thames and northwest of Didcot. Historically part of Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since the 1974 boundary changes. The 201 ...
,
Berkshire
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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][
]
References
External links
* http://www.thepeerage.com/p48657.htm#i486564
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1928 births
People from County Galway
People from Pangbourne
Royal Artillery officers
Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom
Living people
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
People educated at Marlborough College
Earls of Westmeath