Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Wilton
The Right Honourable The Earl of Wilton
Earl of Wilton
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1999
Preceded by	Seymour Egerton
Baron Ebury
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 May 1957
Preceded by	Robert Grosvenor
Personal details
Born	Francis Egerton Grosvenor; 8 February 1934 (age 90)
Spouses	; Gilian Soames (m. 1957; div. 1962) ; Kyra Aslin (m. 1963; div. 1973) ; Suzanne Suckling (m. 1974; died 2018)
Children	Julian, Viscount Grey de Wilton; Lady Georgina Mitev;
Parents	Robert, 5th Baron Ebury; Anne Acland-Troyte;
Melbourne University

Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (born 8 February 1934), is an

academic

.

Early life

Lord Wilton is the eldest son of

Robert Egerton Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury, DSO, and his first wife, Anne Acland-Troyte. He succeeded his father as 6th Baron Ebury in 1957 and his fourth cousin, Seymour Egerton, as 8th Earl of Wilton in 1999.^[1]

Lord Wilton is also heir presumptive to the title Marquess of Westminster currently held by his distant cousin Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster.

Career

Educated at

Melbourne University (2001), where he taught as Dr Francis Ebury.^[2]

Lord Wilton served on the

Board of Directors of Victorian Opera (Melbourne) 2012–17.^[3]

Marriages and children

Lord Wilton has married three times.[4] He was married firstly on 10 December 1957 to Gillian Elfrida Astley Soames (marriage dissolved 1962). They had one son:

Julian Francis Martin Grosvenor,
earldom and subsidiary titles
, married in 1987 to Danielle Rossi (divorced 1989).

Secondly, he married Kyra Aslin on 8 March 1963 (marriage dissolved 1973) without issue.

Thirdly, he married Suzanne Jean Suckling (4 August 1943 – 12 April 2018) in 1974. They remained married until her death 44 years later and had one daughter:

Lady Georgina Lucy Grosvenor (29 March 1973 – 16 August 2003), a noted
violist, married in 2000 to Dr Peter Mitev.^[5]

His third wife was a

patron of the Australian Garden History Society

.

Styles

The Honourable Francis Grosvenor (1934–1957)
The Right Honourable the Lord Ebury (1957–1999)
The Right Honourable the Earl of Wilton (1999–present)

References

External links

The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility Saunders and Otley, 1838
www.burkespeerage.com

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Seymour Egerton	Earl of Wilton 1999–present	Incumbent Heir apparent: Julian Grosvenor, Viscount Grey de Wilton
Preceded by Robert Egerton Grosvenor	Baron Ebury 1957–present

[1] Cracroft's Peerage

[2] University of Melbourne: Publications (Dr Francis Ebury)

[3] www.victorianopera.com.au

[4] The Peerage

[5] www.endeavor.bg

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