Dermot MacDermot

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Sir Dermot MacDermot {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG|CBE}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42552/page/5/data.pdf|title=CHANCERY OF THE ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE|work=The London Gazette|date=1 January 1962}} (1906–1989), styled Prince of Coolavin, Chief of the Name, head of the MacDermot clan, and a descendant of the Kings of Moylurg.

MacDermot attended Stonyhurst College,{{Cite news|title=3 Catholics Receive Knightoods|date=18 June 1954|newspaper=The Catholic Herald|url=http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/18th-june-1954/7/3-catholics}} and went on to Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar.{{Cite news|title=Irish Chiefs and Indians|date=25 September 1987|newspaper=The Catholic Herald|url=http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/25th-september-1987/8/irish-chiefs-and-indians}}

Sir Dermot MacDermot had served as British Ambassador to Indonesia (1956–59) and Thailand (1961–65). He succeeded his brother as The MacDermot upon the latter's death in 1979. He wrote an account of the family titled "MacDermot of Moylurg: The Story of a Connacht Family". The book chronicles the affairs of the Kings of Moylurg and their neighbours over the course of six hundred years.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}