Quentin Gerard Carew Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth, (born 25 July 1954), styled Viscount Lymington in 1984, is a British peer and current head of the Wallop family.

Early life

Quentin Wallop was born on 25 July 1954, the son of Oliver Kintzing Wallop, Viscount Lymington (d. 1984) and Ruth Violet

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Sladen (d. 1978). His mother was the second daughter of Brigadier General Gerald Carew Sladen and his wife Mabel Ursula Orr-Ewing, a daughter of Sir Archibald Ernest Orr-Ewing. Before his parents' marriage, she had previously been the wife of Richard Desborough Malcolm Mason, of Mau Narok, Kenya. He is the great-grandson of Edward Bosc Sladen, a British army officer. He was educated at

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Career

In June 1984, on his father’s death, Quentin Wallop became his grandfather’s heir, and on his grandfather’s death in September 1984 he succeeded him as Earl of Portsmouth and as owner of the estate in Hampshire. From 1987 until 2002, he was a non-executive director of the Grainger Trust, whose principal activity is property investment and trading and which in 1998 was reported to have made £8.4 million on a turnover of £44 million. As of 1999, he owned 16.55% of the equity, making him the firm's largest shareholder. He took his seat as an hereditary peer in the

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, but rarely spoke there. A supporter of hunting, Portsmouth was Chairman of the Hampshire branch of the Game Conservancy Trust from 2001 to 2005. He is a Liveryman of the

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, President of the Basingstoke

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, patron of the Hampshire branch of the

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, and churchwarden of St Andrew's Church, Farleigh Wallop. In 1988, Portsmouth helped to fund £376,000 of the legal expenses of

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in defending his libel case against Lord Aldington. He also helped fund the legal expenses of Neil Hamilton in defending his libel case against

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Personal life

On 10 February 1981, he married the author

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, the only daughter of

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. Before divorcing in 1985, they had two children: * Oliver Henry Rufus Wallop, Viscount Lymington (born 22 December 1981), who later married the designer Flora Pownall. * Lady Clementine Violet Rohais Wallop (born 20 November 1983) Lord and Lady Portsmouth divorced in 1984 and both subsequently remarried. In 1990 Portsmouth married secondly Annabel Fergusson, daughter of Dr. Ian Fergusson, and they have one daughter: * Lady Rose Hermione Annabel Wallop (born 23 October 1990). Portsmouth lives at the family seat, Farleigh House in Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire.

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Quentin Quentin is a French masculine given name derived from the Latin first name ''Quintinus'', a diminutive form of ''Quintus'', which means "the fifth". Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et comment� ...

People educated at Eton College People from Farleigh Wallop

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