Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways, 8th Earl of Ilchester 24 September 1887 – 4 October 1970), was a British peer. He also held the

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s of Baron Ilchester, Baron Strangways and Baron Ilchester and Stavordale. Fox-Strangways inherited the earldom of Ilchester from Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester, his fifth cousin once removed, after the 7th Earl died without surviving male issue.

Biography

He was the son of Maurice Walter Fox-Strangways CSI (1862–; d. 27 May 1938) and his wife Louisa Blanche Phillips, daughter of Major-General George Phillips. He was educated at

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and

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. He succeeded to the earldom in 1964.

Marriage and family

On 8 April 1916, Fox-Strangways married Laure Georgine Emilie Mazaraki, daughter of Evanghelos Georgios Mazaraki, an executive with the Suez Canal Company; they had three children: *

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Maurice Vivian de Touffreville Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester (1 April 1920 - 2 July 2006) *

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Raymond George Fox-Strangways (11 November 1921 - 27 April 2005), father of Robin Maurice Fox-Strangways, 10th Earl of Ilchester. * Lady Elizabeth Doreen Jeanne Fox-Strangways (21 January 1931 - 18 September 2008) The 8th Earl died on 4 October 1970 aged 83 and was succeeded in the earldom by his elder son Maurice.

Arms

The arms of the head of the Fox-Strangways family are

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ed ''Quarterly of four: 1st & 4th: Sable, two lions passant paly of six argent and gules'' (Strangways); ''2nd & 3rd: Ermine, on a chevron azure three foxes' heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third'' (Fox).“Earl of Ilchester” in Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), ''Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage'' (Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968), p. 607

References

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