Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt
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Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt {{small|KP MVO}} (16 July 1880 – 21 March 1947){{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10358.htm#i103571|title=Thepeerage.com - Person Page 10358|accessdate=2008-12-13}} was an Anglo-Irish peer.
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| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100% |KP|MVO}}
| honorific_prefix = The Honourable
| name = Viscount Powerscourt
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| birth_name = Mervyn Richard Wingfield
| birth_date = 16 July 1880
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = 21 March 1947
| death_place = Powerscourt Estate, County Wicklow, Ireland
| nationality = Irish
| other_titles =
| predecessor = Mervyn Edward Wingfield
| successor = Mervyn Patrick Wingfield
| spouse = Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie (m. 1903)
| issue = Doreen, Meryvn and Bryan
| occupation = Public service, involvement in Irish politics, and military service during WWI
| residence = Powerscourt Estate
| module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes
|rank = Captain
| branch = Irish Guards
| serviceyears = 1914–1918
| awards = Belgian Croix de Guerre, Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
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Life
Wingfield was born to Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, whom he succeeded as Viscount Powerscourt in 1904.
He was commissioned in the Irish Guards in February 1901, and promoted to Lieutenant on 3 July 1901. The Irish Guards had been created in 1900, and Wingfield was chosen to carry the colours at the first presentation of Colours to the Regiment on 30 May 1902, following which he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular |date=31 May 1902 |page=8 |issue=36782}}{{London Gazette |issue=27440 |date=6 June 1902|page=3681}} He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wicklow on 15 February 1910 and created a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 18 April 1916.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
He served as Commissioner for Leinster in the Dublin Boy Scouts and allowed Scouts to have extensive access to the Powerscourt Estate for camping. He was involved in early Scouting milestones, attending the 1st World Scout Jamboree at Olympia in 1920. He was awarded the Silver Wolf by the Scout Association in 1924 and welcomed Baden Powell to the estate in 1928 to review a party of Scouts.
Lord Powerscourt died on 21 March 1947.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
Family
In 1903, he married Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie: they had three children, including Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, 9th Viscount Powerscourt. Lady Powerscourt served as the Girl Guides Deputy Chief Commissioner for Ireland.{{cite web|title=Viscountess Powerscourt 1921|url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/viscountess-powerscourt/query/viscountess|publisher=British Pathe}}
Through the Wingfield line he was a descendant of the Noble House of Stratford. He is a great-grandfather of Sarah, Duchess of York through her mother Susan Barrantes, who is Powerscourt's granddaughter.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20015772.html|title='Duchess of Cork' embraces Irish roots|work=Irish Examiner|first=Mary|last=Regan|date=14 October 2006|accessdate=7 December 2020}}
References
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External links
- {{cite TIWW |article= Powerscourt, Viscount|page= 210}}
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Category:Knights of St Patrick
Category:Lord-lieutenants of Wicklow
Category:Members of the Royal Victorian Order