Randal Alexander McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim DL (born 2 July 1967), previously known as Viscount Dunluce, is a Northern Irish landowner, with an estate based at

Glenarm Castle Glenarm Castle, Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is the ancestral home of the Earl of Antrim. History There has been a castle at Glenarm since the 13th century, where it resides at the heart of one of Northern Ireland's oldest estates. ...

, and a

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businessman, chairman of Sarasin & Partners LLP. He is also a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...

and

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of the Clan McDonnell of the Glens.

Life

The only son of

Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim, (3 February 1935 – 21 July 2021), known as Alexander Dunluce, was a Northern Irish landowner, peer, artist, and art restorer. He lived mostly at his ancestral home, Glenarm Castle, County ...

, and a grandson of the sculptor

Angela Sykes Angela Christina MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim (6 September 1911 – 27 August 1984), also known as Angela Antrim, was Countess of Antrim, a sculptor, a cartoonist, and an illustrator. Early life and education Angela Christina Sykes was born 6 ...

,Marie Louise McConville
Earl of Antrim's funeral to take place in Glenarm next week
''

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'', 6 August 2021, accessed 3 July 2022 the present Lord Antrim was educated at

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and

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,''

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'', vol. 1 (1999), p. 90"DUNLUCE, Viscount" in Lucy Hume, ed., ''

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'' (London: Debrett's, 2017), p. 1882 where he graduated in Modern History.The Earl of Antrim
highcouncilofclandonald.com, accessed 3 July 2022 He is the brother of Lady Flora McDonnell and a nephew of the artist

Hector McDonnell The Hon. Hector John McDonnell (born 1947) is a Northern Irish painter, etcher, and author, specializing in architectural art, landscape, and portrait work. Early life A younger son of Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim, by his marriage to the ...

. After Oxford, Dunluce, as he then was, embarked on a career in

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in the City of London. In 1992, when he was twenty-five, his father put him in charge of the Glenarm Castle estate, and in that role he diversified to achieve sustainability, investing in Glenarm Shorthorn Beef, Glenarm Organic Salmon, and hydroelectric power. Glenarm Castle was first built in 1603 by Antrim’s ancestor Randal MacSorley MacDonnell. In 1998 he began to work at Sarasin & Partners LLP, where he has been chairman since 2008, taking responsibility for the investment mandates of the firm’s largest customers and its charitable endowments. He is also a

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of Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC. In 2002, he was a member of three London clubs, the Savile, the

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, and the

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. As Lord Dunluce, Antrim married Aurora Gunn in 2004. They have a son, Alexander, Viscount Dunluce (born 2006) and a daughter, Lady Helena McDonnell (born 2008), both at school in England. Lady Antrim is a documentary filmmaker and member of the Board of the

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. In December 2013, as Dunluce, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for County Antrim. When his father died on 21 July 2021, Antrim inherited his peerages and estates. In November 2021, Antrim,

Edwin Poots Edwin Poots (born 27 April 1965) is a British politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from May to June 2021. He was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in 1998, and was ...

, and local children planted the first trees of 350 hectares of new native woodland on Antrim’s estate at Glenarm Forest. Poots, Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, announced this as Northern Ireland’s first Queen's Commonwealth Canopy forest conservation project.Kathleen O'Sullivan
"Glenarm Forest is NI’s first accredited QCC forest conservation project"
agriland.co.uk, 9 November 2021, accessed 3 July 2022

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