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Ceawlin Henry Laszlo Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath (; ; born 6 June 1974), styled Viscount Weymouth between 1992 and 2020, is a British peer, landowner, and businessman, active in companies in the leisure, tourism, real estate and financial services sectors.


Early life

Born in
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, the first son and second child of
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (6 May 1932 – 4 April 2020), styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, was an English peer and landowner, owner of the Longleat estate, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, an ...
, and his wife Anna Gyarmathy,London Evening Standard
Ceawlin Thynn was educated at Horningsham Primary School, a village school near the family estate of
Longleat Longleat is a stately home about west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. A leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, it is a Grade I listed building and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath. Longleat is set in of parkl ...
, in
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, then at
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in
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and
Bedales School Bedales School is a coeducational boarding and day public school, in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Garrett Badley and John Haden Badley in reaction to the li ...
in
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; he finally read economics and philosophy at
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. He is named after
Ceawlin of Wessex Ceawlin ( ; also spelled Ceaulin, Caelin, Celin, died ''ca.'' 593) was a King of Wessex. He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex and the grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, whom the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' represents as the leader of the ...
, having been born shortly after his father had stood as the Wessex Regionalists'
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in Westbury at the
February 1974 United Kingdom general election The February 1974 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 28 February 1974. The Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, led by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, gained 14 seats (301 total) but was seventeen short of an overall majority ...
. In 1996, Thynn was injured in a building collapse in
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, India, initially thought to be caused by a terrorist bomb, which killed his girlfriend, Jane Kirby, and his business partner, Crinan Wilde.


Business career

Thynn began his business career as an emerging markets specialist at the London investment bank
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, before becoming a partner in Sabre Projects, a real estate development firm. At Sabre he put together a project with
Group Menatep Bank "MENATEP", Bank "MENATEP SPb" (Russian: Банк "МЕНАТЕП Санкт-Петербург" / Банк «МЕНАТЕП СПб») and "Group Menatep Limited" were financial companies, created by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. "Gr ...
, the holding company of Russia's then-largest oil company,
Yukos OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" (, ) was an oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia. Yukos was acquired from the Russian government by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Bank Menatep during the controversial "loans for shares" auctions of ...
, to develop a mid-market hotel in every major city in Russia. In 2008, Thynn formed the Lion Trust, a private equity vehicle of which he is the principal. The Lion Trust invests in a range of mature and emerging markets. Since June 2010, Thynn has been a director at Finmetron AB, a Swedish listed firm offering factoring services in Russia. From 2010 until 2013, Thynn was executive chairman of Wombat's Holdings GmbH – a chain of hostels in Germany and Austria – having acquired a majority stake in the company. In 2013, the company was bought back by its former owners.


Longleat

In January 2009, Thynn became chairman of Longleat Enterprises, a limited company that manages business interests at
Longleat House Longleat is a stately home about west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. A leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, it is a Grade I listed building and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath. Longleat is set in of parklan ...
and
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on the family estate of Longleat, Wiltshire, as well as the commercial activities at
Cheddar Gorge Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years ...
, in the
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in Somerset. In early 2010, Thynn's father passed the management of the family business over to him. Following this retirement, Thynn hired a new estate chief executive, David Bradley, formerly of
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. Together, they worked with designers from Hollywood to make improvements to the house and park; additions to the park included "Jungle Kingdom", "Monkey Temple", and "Hunters of the Sky". In September 2013, Bradley resigned, and in February 2014 the American Bob Montgomery was hired for the same role. In April 2020, Thynn's father died, and he succeeded him as
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. Thynn is a trustee of the Longleat Charitable Trust, a charity established in 1996 that focuses on relieving poverty around the Longleat estate and Cheddar Gorge.


Politics

Thynn made donations of £30,000 and £15,000 to the Liberal Democrats during the 2019 general election.


Personal life

In November 2012, aged 38, Thynn announced his engagement to
Emma McQuiston Emma Clare Thynn, Marchioness of Bath (''née'' McQuiston; born 26 March 1986), styled as Viscountess Weymouth from 2013 to 2020, is a British socialite and fashion model. She is married to Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath. In 2020, she bec ...
, the daughter of Suzanna McQuiston and Nigerian oil billionaire
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, a founder and the executive chairman of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics. She is a younger half-sister of Iain McQuiston, the husband of Thynn's half-aunt, Lady Silvy Cerne Thynne, a daughter of his paternal grandfather, the 6th Marquess of Bath, by his second wife. Thynn’s mother was reported as strongly disapproving of her son's planned marriage, due to her prospective daughter-in-law's African ancestry, and she was not invited to the wedding. It was reported that Thynn intended to evict his father's 'wifelets' from their estate cottages, and some murals painted by his father were removed from Longleat. A rift between them developed. Thynn and McQuiston were married at Longleat on 8 June 2013, with Lord Bath boycotting the event. Despite the absence of both his parents, the marriage was attended by Thynn’s sister.Racism Toward First Black Marchioness Stirs Rift At Longleat
naij.com, accessdate: 8 January 2017


References

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Ceawlin Ceawlin ( ; also spelled Ceaulin, Caelin, Celin, died ''ca.'' 593) was a King of Wessex. He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex and the grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, whom the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' represents as the leader of the fi ...
British people of Hungarian descent Liberal Democrats (UK) donors People educated at Bedales School