The Rt Hon. Thomas Eustace Vesey, 7th Viscount de Vesci and 8th Baron Knapton (born 8 October 1955), is an Irish peer.

Early life

Vesey is the son of the 6th Viscount de Vesci and the former Susan Anne Armstrong-Jones, sister of the 1st Earl of Snowdon. In addition to being a nephew of the 1st Earl of Snowdon, he is a grand-nephew of the 6th Earl of Kenmare.

Career

Lord Vesci sold Abbeyleix Castle, saddled with £1.5 million in

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, in 1994 to the financier Sir David Davies. Despite the sale of Abbeyleix House and Estate, Lord de Vesci continues to promote the heritage of the town of

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. In 2012, he gave an interview about his family's connection to the town of Abbeyleix to Glenda Gilson for Irishheritagetowns.com.

Marriage and family

On 5 September 1987, Lord de Vesci married Sita-Maria Arabella, daughter of Brian Michael Leese, later de Breffny, of

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, an English genealogist (of English-Jewish and Irish heritage), by his wife Maharaj Kumari Jyotsna Dutt, daughter of

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Sir Uday Chand Mahtab, last ruler of Burdwan Raj.Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 2000, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, p. 476. They have three children: # Damian John Vesey (born 1985; before his parents' marriage, so not in the line of succession) # Hon. Cosima Frances Vesey (born 1988), who gave birth to a son with

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, Ivo Vesey (born 9 July 2017) # Hon. Oliver Ivo Vesey (born 16 July 1991),

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References

1955 births Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland

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