Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne

Gustavus Michael George Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne KCVO, JP (10 December 1931 – 14 December 1995)[1] was an Irish peer, soldier and banker.

Background

He was the son of Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, oldest son of Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 9th Viscount Boyne, and his wife Joan Verena Lloyd-Verney (1908–1938), only daughter of Sir Harry Lloyd-Verney by his wife Lady Joan Cuffe, elder daughter of Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart.[2]

His father having died of wounds received at the Western Front in 1940,[3] he succeeded his grandfather as viscount two years later.[4] He was educated at Eton College and went then to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.[4] He studied later at the Royal Agricultural College.[2]

Career

Boyne was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1952 and retired as lieutenant.[4] In 1961, he was nominated Justice of the Peace for Shropshire and in 1965, a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county.[2] He became director of the National Westminster Bank in 1976, leaving in 1990.[2] Boyne was appointed a Lord-in-waiting in 1981[5] and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1994,[6] holding both posts until his death in 1995.[2] Boyne was a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John, and in the latter year he was also awarded a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.[7]

Family

On 11 April 1956, he married Rosemary Anne Stucley, second daughter of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet.[2] They had three daughters and a son.[2] Boyne died aged 64, only days after his birthday and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his only son Gustavus.[1]

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References
  1. "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  2. "ThePeerage - Gustavus Michael George Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne". Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  3. "Blue Blood in Flanders". Time Magazine. 17 June 1940. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  4. Who is Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1963. p. 380.
  5. "No. 48669". The London Gazette. 3 July 1981. p. 8903.
  6. "Institute of Historical Research - Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (England & Wales) 1974-". Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  7. "No. 54066". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1995. p. 4.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Sir John Robert Stratford Dugdale		 Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire
1994–1995		 Succeeded by
Sir Algernon Eustace Heber-Percy
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Gustavus Hamilton-Russell		 Viscount Boyne
1942–1995		 Succeeded by
Gustavus Hamilton-Russell
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