Irish peer, soldier and banker
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,[2] oldest son of Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 9th Viscount Boyne and Lady Margaret Selina Lascelles, and his wife Joan Verena Lloyd-Verney, only daughter of Sir Harry Lloyd-Verney by his wife Lady Joan Cuffe, elder daughter of Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart.
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.
Career
Boyne was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1952, serving as the Ensign during Trooping the Colour in 1953, retiring as lieutenant.[4] In 1961, he was nominated Justice of the Peace for Shropshire and in 1965, a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county. He became director of the National Westminster Bank in 1976, leaving in 1990.
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.
Boyne was a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John, and in the latter year he was also appointed 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. They had three daughters and a son. Boyne died aged 64, only days after his birthday and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his only son Gustavus, "Tavie."[1]
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