Colonel Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (7 February 1857 – 23 October 1952) was an Irish Peer,

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officer and a

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Member of Parliament for South Glamorganshire 1895–1906.

Background

He was the son of Captain Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin (1829–1865), a younger son of

Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (29 September 1782 – 6 August 1850) was an Irish Peer. Origin He was the eldest son of Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl and Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways ...

, by his wife Caroline Tyler, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir George Tyler. He succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his cousin

Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, entrepreneur, sportsman and Conservative politician. ...

, who died in 1926 without male issue.

Military and political career

Wyndham-Quin was a

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in the 16th Lancers, and served in the

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in 1881.DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 He again volunteered for service in

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in early 1900, during the

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, and was appointed a captain in the

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on 14 February 1900. He raised and commanded the 4th (Glamorgan) Company, IY, which left

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on the SS ''Cymric'' in March 1900 to serve as a company of the 1st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. On 18 April 1900 he was appointed 2nd in command of this battalion. He was

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, received the Queen's medal (3 clasps), and was awarded the

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(DSO) in November 1900. On return from South Africa he raised and commanded the Glamorgan Imperial Yeomanry, a full regiment that perpetuated 4th Company. He was promoted to the honorary rank of

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on 19 Oct 1901. In the 1895 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for South Glamorganshire, winning the seat for the

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. He was re-elected in 1900, but lost the seat in the 1906 general election. He served as

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for 1914.

Family

He married Lady Eva Constance Aline Bourke, daughter of

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. They had the following children: * Richard Southwell Windham Robert Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1887–1965) *Captain Hon. Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin (22 May 1890 – 1983), married Marjorie Pretyman in 1919 and had three daughters, including Marjorie Olein, wife of

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, and Pamela, wife of

John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield, 1st Baron Egremont MBE (5 June 1920 – 6 June 1972) was a British peer, art collector and author. Career John Wyndham was the son of Edward Wyndham, 5th Baron Leconfield, and Gladys Mary Far ...

*Lady Olein Wyndham-Quin (5 March 1892 – 1969) *Miss Kathleen Sybil Wyndham-Quin (1895–1907) He died at

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and is buried at St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland

Publications

* ''The Yeomanry Cavalry of Gloucester and Monmouth'' (1897) * ''Sir Charles Tyler, GCB, Admiral of the White'' (1912) * ''The Foxhound in County Limerick''

References

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External links

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