8th Earl Cadogan (1937-2023)

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According to Wikipedia, the 8th Earl Cadogan, Charles Gerald John Cadogan (b. March 24, 1937), died June 12, 2023.  He was 86.

He is succeeded in his peerages by his son, Viscount Chelsea (Edward Charles Cadogan), b. May 10, 1966.

The new Earl's ha is his older son, George Edward  Charles Diether Cadogan, b. 1995, who will presumably take his father's old courtesy title.  The new Viscount Chelsea married last year.

Brooke

[colinp]

Cadogan Estates website says he died 11 June 2023 -  News | Cadogan Estates | Chelsea, London UK

[bx...@yahoo.com]

colinp,  wiki has made the correction.

Brooke

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Debrett's has updated this page.

The 9th Earl is now shown, and his son, the ha, has indeed taken his father's old courtesy title of Viscount Chelsea.

Still no Tenby update.

Brooke

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 14 June 2023: CADOGAN Charles Gerald John, 8th Earl Cadogan KBE DL died peacefully at home in Chelsea on Sunday, 11th June 2023 aged 86. Beloved husband of Dorothy, father to Anna-Karina, Edward and William, and grandfather to Philippa, George, Charlie, Alexander, Alice, Ella and Bea. He will be greatly missed. A private funeral will be held for close family, with details of a memorial service to be announced at a later date.

[Richard R]

The mention of ‘his own land’ brings back happy memories of my many years living on the King’s Road, just a few streets south of where the earl was living at the time, where I’d often see him on those ‘strolls’! I also met his parents: his father an amiably gruff, and by then elderly, chap and his mother a quiet, charming lady. I was very sad when he forced the closure of the Oriel as described below, a favourite haunt of mine for many years.

Obit from the Times of 14 June 2023:

Earl Cadogan obituary

Thrice-married patriarch of an aristocratic family whose £5 billion property empire included swathes of Knightsbridge and Chelsea

The 8th Earl Cadogan could take a proprietorial stroll from Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge down Sloane Street to Chelsea and the Kings Road without ever having to step off his own land.

His property empire covered 93 acres of one of London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods, comprising more than 3,000 houses and apartments, 300 shops, 500,000 square feet of office space, nine hotels, seven schools, five embassies and a similar number of churches. Streets, squares and halls all bore his name on the Cadogan estate, which had been in the family for 300 years. It was once said that “if something doesn’t move in Chelsea, the Cadogan family probably owns it”.

The 2023 Sunday Times Rich List calculated that he was the 36th wealthiest man in Britain, a fall from a time when he had been in the top ten, although still with a fortune calculated at £5.57 billion. It made him the second richest peer of the realm behind his metropolitan neighbour the Duke of Westminster, whose Grosvenor estate owns some 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia and a large chunk of Oxford Street…

… Robust in manner and forthright in style, he held firm opinions, could be inflexible and valued tradition and continuity. In one notorious incident he forced the closure of the Oriel restaurant, which had been a Sloane Square landmark for years, because he was upset about the quality and price of the food it served and later refused to renew its lease…

… Despite owning much of the capital’s most desirable real estate, he described himself as a “countryman” and divided his time between London and a 2,800-acre Scottish estate at Snaigow, Perthshire, according to the sporting and social seasons…

… Descended from Major William Cadogan, a cavalry officer in Oliver Cromwell’s army, he sought to live his life by the family motto: “He who envies is the lesser man.”…

… He is survived by his third wife Dorothy (née Shipsey), a former matron at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, whom he married in 1994, and by his heir and two further children, Anna-Karina and William, from his first marriage in 1963 to Lady Philippa Wallop, daughter of the 9th Earl of Portsmouth. The marriage ended with her death in 1984 from a heart attack after watching her horse, Saturnian, win a race. A second marriage to Jennifer Rae, a catering and etiquette expert, ended in divorce.

Charles Gerald John Cadogan was born in 1937, the son of William Gerald Charles Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan, and Primrose Lilian Yarde-Buller, the sister-in-law of the Aga Khan.

The family fortune dated back to the marriage of an 18th-century ancestor Charles Cadogan to Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Hans Sloane, whose bequest of 70,000 artefacts led to the foundation of the British Museum. On Sloane’s death in 1753, his other assets passed into the Cadogan family. Elizabeth’s son Charles became the 1st Earl Cadogan in 1800 after inheriting the estate in 1776…

Earl Cadogan, landowner, was born on March 24, 1937. He died of undisclosed causes on June 11, 2023, aged 86

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/earl-cadogan-obituary-pdgml3cdq

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Was it ever confirmed if Earl Cadogan was the peer who arrived at the Coronation with Andrew Parker Bowles?

[colinp]

The 9th Earl Cadogan, Edward Charles Cadogan, has now been entered on the Roll of the Peerage - also as Baron Cadogan (GB) and Baron Oakley (UK)

[Richard R]

Thanks for this & other updates Colin. Do you have access to a Roll of The Peerage that is later than the one included on the College of Arms website, which is dated 29 May 2023 (ie before the 8th Earl's death on 11 June 2023)? Or is this from the House of Lords records?

[colinp]

the updated Roll dated 30 Nov has been put on the College website over past two or three days.  The updates just relate to the peers who have gone onto the Roll but haven't gone onto the House of Lords Register of potential candidates (where I have been reporting them as and when they are minuted in the HoL Proceedings)