BOLTON, Rt Hon 8th Baron 1954-2023
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He was s of 7th
Baron BOLTON 1929-2001 and his 1st w (her 1st h) Hon
Christine Helene WELD FORESTER 1932-2012 d of 7th Baron FORESTER
1899-1977 and Marie Louise Priscilla 1909-88 d of Col Sir Herbert Charles PERROTT 6th
Bt 1849-1922 and Ethel Lucy HARE 1876-1939 (2xgt gd of The Countess of DYSART 1745-1840, as also gt gd of 11th Duke of SOMERSET
1775-1855, etc etc). He m 1977 Philippa Anne 1951-2016 d of Maj Peter Lansdell
TAPPLY 1926-2011 of Malvern, Worcestershire and Sarah Audrey BARLOW 1925-2005,
and had three sons. His eldest son succeeds him:
THOMAS PETER ALGAR
Orde-Powlett, MC 9th Baron has yet to establish claim b 16 July
1979. He m 2008 Katie Jane b c1978 reg Q1 E.Sussex d of Edward John GRIBBLE b
Oct 1954 of Beddingham, Sussex by his 1977 m reg Q4 E Sussex to Kristina b 1960
reg Q2 Hants d of Gordon H RANGER by his 1947 m reg Q3 Sussex to Jean DOWNES
1922-2003, and has issue
SONS LIVING
Hon HECTOR PERCY ALGAR b 21 April 2009
Hon Rufus William Henry b 1 June 2014
DAUGHTERS LIVING
Hon Flora Alice b 2011
Hon Cressida Helena Christine b 2012
BROTHERS LIVING
Hon William Benjamin, b 23 May 1981.
Hon Nicholas Mark,
b 20 June 1985. He m 2017 Elena Rose d of David GIBSON of Rutland and had issue
(Evie Philippa b 2019 reg Q1 Ken&Chelsea)
I note the late Lord Bolton's death notice mentions 8 grandchildren. GRO lists Hugo Charles ORDE-POWLETT b 2021 reg Q4 Middlesborough & Iris Rose ORDE-POWLETT b 2019 reg Q2 Middlesborough. Are they the children of Hon William Benjamin ORDE-POWLETT b 1981? DPB online gives no m for this gentleman.
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The 8th Lord Bolton, conservationist, humanitarian and daredevil jockey, pilot and abseiler – obituary
He won awards for conservation work on his Yorkshire estate and risked his life bringing aid to Bosnia and Rwanda
The 8th Lord Bolton, who has died of cancer aged 69, was a daredevil amateur jump jockey and accident-prone amateur pilot in his youth; but he became an energetic custodian of his family estates in North Yorkshire, winning the largest ever repair grant paid by English Heritage towards the restoration of his medieval family seat, Bolton Castle in Wensleydale, as well as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) award for work to increase the wildlife value of the estate.
In the 1990s Harry Orde-Powlett, as he then was, founded charities to transport aid supplies to victims of the wars in Bosnia (and later Rwanda), frequently travelling to the most dangerous areas himself and regularly being shot at….
Harry Orde-Powlett was born on St Valentine’s Day 1954, the second child and elder son of Richard Orde-Powlett, who would become the 7th Lord Bolton in 1963, and Christine, née Weld Forester, eldest daughter of the 7th Lord Forester.
The Orde-Powletts are descendants of the Scrope family, who built Bolton Castle in the 14th century; it was completed in 1399 by Lord Scrope (formerly Sir Richard le Scrope), King Richard II’s unpopular chancellor. The Bolton barony was created in 1797 for Thomas Orde-Powlett, a Tory politician…..
In 1986 Orde-Powlett took on the running of Bolton Castle, which had been rendered uninhabitable during the Civil War when it served as a Royalist fortress, and which he developed as a tourist attraction and wedding venue…..
After inheriting as the 8th Lord Bolton on the death of his father in 2001, he set about improving tenanted properties on the estate and ran or hosted numerous successful charity fundraising events for causes ranging from the local parish church to the Princes Trust and British Heart Foundation….
In 2015, aged 61, he raised more than £50,000 from sponsors by abseiling down three London skyscrapers – the Cheesegrater, the Walkie Talkie and the Gherkin – all in one day
In 1977 he married Philippa “Pip” Tapply, who died in 2016. He is survived by his second wife, Valerie, whom he married in 2019, and by three sons of his first marriage.
He is succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas Orde-Powlett, born in 1979.
Lord Bolton, born February 14 1954, died June 10 2023
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Obit in the Times of 22 June 2023:
Lord Bolton obituary
Conservationist and bullet-dodging humanitarian who was also a daredevil amateur jockey, abseiler and accident-prone Tiger Moth pilot
Visitors to historical re-enactments at Bolton Castle in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, were amused by the grubby beggar seen crawling around the courtyard. This was Harry Orde-Powlett, the 8th Baron Bolton, “in character”. He would also sometimes play a squire on horseback. The author Candida Lycett Green described the ebullient aristocrat as having “the smiliest eyes I have ever seen and hair like an old haystack”.
He began restoring the family’s long-abandoned fortress in 1986, opening it two years later as a tourist attraction. In the process he redecorated several rooms, brought period tapestries, tableaux and furniture into the principal halls, and returned arms and suits of armour to the forge. During restoration work a human bone was found manacled to a rock in the castle dungeon…
… Having developed Bolton Castle as a tourist attraction and wedding venue, Orde-Powlett turned his attention to the gardens, following principles set out by the medieval writer Albertus Magnus. He secured the blessing of English Heritage but fought with planners from the Yorkshire Dales National Park, who argued that planting the gardens constituted a change of use and required planning permission. Undeterred, he created a herb garden, a bowling green and a rose garden. Latterly, he focused his attention on the 14,000-acre estate, which had been passed to him by his father in 1994…
… Harry Algar Nigel Orde-Powlett was born on Valentine’s Day 1954, the second child and eldest son of Richard Orde-Powlett, who in 1963 succeeded as the 7th Baron Bolton, and his wife Christine (née Weld Forester), daughter of the 7th Baron Forester. His siblings, Rosie, who ran a market garden in Western Australia, and Michael, an airline pilot, survive him. He was a descendant of Sir Richard Scrope, the 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton, who was twice lord chancellor of England under Richard II. Scrope (pronounced Scroop) oversaw the building of Bolton Castle, which was completed in 1399. For six months in 1568-69 it housed Mary Queen of Scots while on her way to Fotheringay.
The 11th Baron Scrope died in 1630, leaving the estate to his illegitimate son, John, who defended Bolton for Charles I during the Civil War. At one point Colonel Chaytor, commander of the royalists, cut off his own hand and threw it at his enemies in a gesture of defiance. They were unmoved and the siege continued until the defenders had eaten their last horse.
One of the garrison, Charles Paulet, or Powlett, married John Scrope’s sister Mary and the castle passed into the Powlett family, but after the war it remained largely unoccupied for more than 300 years and parts of the building eventually collapsed. More recently it has appeared in television series such as All Creatures Great and Small, as well as the Oscar-winning film Elizabeth (1998) starring Cate Blanchett. The Bolton barony was created in 1797 for Thomas Orde-Powlett and eventually passed to Orde-Powlett’s father, the 7th baron (1929-2001), who stood in for David Niven when scenes for the James Bond film Casino Royale (1967) were shot on the moor…
… In 1977 he married Philippa “Pip” Tapply, whom he had met through horse racing and who refused to fly with him. They had three sons: Tom, who was awarded an MC in 2004 for his service in Iraq and who succeeds in the title and runs the Bolton estate; Ben, who has followed in his father’s footsteps with both racing and flying; and Nick, managing director of Tib Services, which provides caretaking staff to schools.
Pip died of cancer in 2016 and in 2019 he married Valerie Hamilton, with whom he shared a love of mountain biking. She and his sons survive him, as does Izzy, his Bosnian translator whose British visa he sponsored…
Harry Orde-Powlett, the 8th Baron Bolton, was born on February 14, 1954. He died of oesophagal cancer on June 10, 2023, aged 69
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-bolton-obituary-92fqf3czxcolinp
Barony of Bolton in the Peerage of Great Britain The Lord Chancellor reported that Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett had established his claim to the Barony of Bolton in the Peerage of Great Britain. The Clerk of the Parliaments was accordingly directed to enter Lord Bolton on the register of hereditary peers maintained under Standing Order 9(4).