Arms of the Earl of Antrim
Randal Alexander McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim DL (born 2 July 1967), previously known as Viscount Dunluce, is a Northern Irish landowner, with an estate based at Glenarm Castle, and a City of London businessman, chairman of Sarasin & Partners LLP. He is also a Deputy Lieutenant of County Antrim and Chief of the Name of the Clan McDonnell of the Glens.
Life
The son of Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim,[1] and a grandson of the sculptor Angela Sykes,[2] the present Lord Antrim was educated at Gresham's School and Worcester College, Oxford,[3][4] where he graduated in Modern History.[5] He is the brother of Lady Flora McDonnell and a nephew of the artist Hector McDonnell.[3][6]
After Oxford, Dunluce, as he then was, embarked on a career in asset management in the City of London. In 1992, when he was twenty-five, his father put him in charge of the Glenarm Castle estate, and in that role he diversified to achieve sustainability, investing in Glenarm Shorthorn Beef, Glenarm Organic Salmon, and hydroelectric power.[5] Glenarm Castle was first built in 1603 by Antrim’s ancestor Randal MacSorley MacDonnell.[7][8]
In 1998 he began to work at Sarasin & Partners LLP, where he has been chairman since 2008, taking responsibility for the investment mandates of the firm’s largest customers and its charitable endowments. He is also a non-executive director of Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC.[5] In 2002, he was a member of three London clubs, the Savile, the Turf, and the Beefsteak.[9]
As Lord Dunluce, Antrim married Aurora Gunn in 2004.[4] They have a son, Alexander, Viscount Dunluce (born 2006) and a daughter, Lady Helena McDonnell (born 2008), both at school in England.[5] Lady Antrim is a documentary filmmaker and member of the Board of the Royal Parks.[10]
In December 2013, as Dunluce, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for County Antrim.[11] [12]
When his father died on 21 July 2021, Antrim inherited his peerages and estates.[2]
In November 2021, Antrim, Edwin Poots, and local children planted the first trees of 350 hectares of new native woodland on Antrim’s estate at Glenarm Forest. Poots, Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, announced this as Northern Ireland’s first Queen's Commonwealth Canopy forest conservation project.[13]
Notes
- ^ Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 31
- ^ a b Marie Louise McConville, Earl of Antrim's funeral to take place in Glenarm next week, The Irish News, 6 August 2021, accessed 3 July 2022
- ^ a b Burke's Peerage, vol. 1 (1999), p. 90
- ^ a b "DUNLUCE, Viscount" in Lucy Hume, ed., Debrett's People of Today (London: Debrett's, 2017), p. 1882
- ^ a b c d The Earl of Antrim, highcouncilofclandonald.com, accessed 3 July 2022
- ^ Pamela Ballantine, "Pam's People: Artist Hector McDonnell sees big picture", Belfast Telegraph,
April 12 2015, accessed 3 July 2022
- ^ Richard Pococke, John McVeagh, Richard Pococke's Irish Tours (Irish Academic Press, 1995), p. 212
- ^ Mark Bence-Jones, Burke's Guide to Country Houses: Volume I, Ireland (1978), p. 135
- ^ "DUNLUCE , Viscount Randal Alexander St John McDonnell" in Sara Foster, Zoe Gullen, eds., Debrett's People of Today (London: Debrett's, 2002), p. 568
- ^ "New Members appointed to the board of The Royal Parks", Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, accessed 28 July 2022
- ^ Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 (2020), p. 1553
- ^ Deputy Lieutenant Commissions, The Belfast Gazette, 31 January 2014, Notice ID: B-7586-1
- ^ Kathleen O'Sullivan, "Glenarm Forest is NI’s first accredited QCC forest conservation project", agriland.co.uk, 9
November 2021, accessed 3 July 2022
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