James Fitzroy, Earl of Euston (1947-2009)

[Olivier]

James Oliver Charles FitzRoy, Earl of Euston died on 1 October 2009 at
his home. Funeral service: St Genevieve's Church at Euston on 14
October 2009. Memorial service at London later on.

[marquess]

Commiserations to the family! Does anyone know the cause?

[www.maltagenealogy.com]

Looks like his son Henry will be the Earl for a short time before
succeeding as the 12th Duke of Grafton, as his grand father was born
in 1919. Such a pity to see the late Earl died a few years after 60.

[Michael Rhodes]

_.James Oliver Charles Fitzoy, MA, FCA; b 13 Dec 1947; married 1972,
Lady Clare Kerr, BA, dau of the Marquess of Lothian;
one son (Visc Ipswich) and 4 daughters; educ a Eton & Magdalene
College, Cambridge (MA); Director, Smith St Aubyn & Co
(Holdings) plc, 1980-86; Executive Director, Enskilda Securities,
1982-87; Jamestown Investments, 1987-91; Finance Director,
Central Capital Holdings, 1988-91; Capel-Cure Myers Capital
Management, 1988-97; his son, Henry Oliver Charles FitzRoy,
syled Viscount Ipswich (b 6 Apr 1978) now advances to the courtesy
title Earl of Euston as heir apparent to his grandfather,
the 11th Duke of Grafton, KG (b 3 Apr 1919).

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On 6 Oct, 13:01, "www.maltagenealogy.com" <tancarvil...@gmail.com>
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[bx...@yahoo.com]

I believe next in line would be the deceased's younger brother and his
two teenage sons.

At least when it comes to the succession for the Dukedoms, there
generally is nothing to worry about. Off the top of my head, I think
the only dukedom lacking multiple heirs is Leinster.

Brooke


On Oct 6, 12:14�pm, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> _.James Oliver Charles Fitzoy, MA, FCA; b 13 Dec 1947; married 1972,
> Lady Clare Kerr, BA, dau of the Marquess of Lothian;

> one son (ViscIpswich) and 4 daughters; educ a Eton & Magdalene

> College, Cambridge (MA); Director, Smith St Aubyn & Co
> (Holdings) plc, 1980-86; Executive Director, Enskilda Securities,
> 1982-87; Jamestown Investments, 1987-91; Finance Director,
> Central Capital Holdings, 1988-91; Capel-Cure Myers Capital
> Management, 1988-97; his son, Henry Oliver Charles FitzRoy,

> syledViscountIpswich(b 6 Apr 1978) now advances to the courtesy

> title Earl of Euston as heir apparent to his grandfather,
> the 11th Duke of Grafton, KG (b 3 Apr 1919).
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> On 6 Oct, 13:01, "www.maltagenealogy.com" <tancarvil...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Looks like his son Henry will be the Earl for a short time before
> > succeeding as the 12th Duke of Grafton, as his grand father was born
> > in 1919. Such a pity to see the late Earl died a few years after 60.
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> > On Oct 6, 10:22�pm, marquess <marquessmarqu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > > Commiserations to the family! Does anyone know the cause?
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> > > On Oct 6, 5:29�pm, Olivier <olivierguionn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > James Oliver Charles FitzRoy, Earl of Euston died on 1 October 2009 at
> > > > his home. Funeral service: St Genevieve's Church at Euston on 14
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[Shinjinee]

Very sorry to hear this. I once corresponded with one of his
daughters.

Shinjinee

[marquess]

No that would be Westminster, there is only the Earl Grosvenor in
remainder, Leinster has Lord John and his son, and I think that here
is another collateral who is quite old with no children.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

marquess, you're right-- I forgot about Westminster.

Leinster's only viable heir is Lord John's son who is 3 years older
than Earl Grosvenor.

Looking at my 2003 Debrett's, the youngest one in remainder is 56
years old.

Brooke

[marquess]

Peter Charles b 1925 and his male issue Stephen Peter b 1953. Lets
hope that the latter is married with children but has just never
bothered to fill in the form.

[Michael Rhodes]

_.The Earl of Euston, who died on October 1 aged 61, was the heir to
the Duke of Grafton; having made a successful career as a corporate
financier in the City, he went on to transform the fortunes of the
family estates in Suffolk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/6432353/The-Earl-of-Euston.html#

The Grafton dukedom was created in 1675 for Henry Charles FitzRoy, the
third of five illegitimate children of King Charles II by his long-
time mistress Barbara Villiers – who became Countess of Castlemaine
when her husband was ennobled (as compensation for being cuckolded)
and was later Duchess of Cleveland in her own right.

She was admired by Pepys for her beauty, but the "crudeness of her
manners, her ridiculous haughtiness and her perpetual suspicions" made
her disagreeable to another writer, Anthony Hamilton. But she was
certainly skilled at obtaining the King's favour for her offspring:
Henry FitzRoy's two brothers received the dukedoms of Southampton and
Northumberland respectively, and Henry himself had earlier been
created Earl of Euston, Viscount Ipswich and Baron Sudbury. Perhaps
the most distinguished of his descendants was his great-grandson the
3rd Duke, who was Prime Minister from 1768 to 1770, at the height of
the American War of Independence.

James – who bore the courtesy title of Viscount Ipswich until his
father succeeded to the dukedom in 1970 – was educated at Eton and
Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read History.

He went on to qualify as an accountant with Spicer & Pegler, and to
join the merchant bank J Henry Schroder Wagg. He also became a
director of the discount house Smith St Aubyn, and in 1982 he and a
group of friends, chiefly from Hambros Bank, moved to set up Enskilda
Securities, a boutique corporate finance house which rapidly made a
name for itself in the boom years of the 1980s City.

After five years the founders were bought out by Enskilda's
Scandinavian parent, and went on to establish another boutique,
Jamestown Investments, which specialised in putting deals together in
the financial sector. Through that connection, James Euston became
finance director of Central Capital Holdings and Capel-Cure Myers
Capital Management.

Tall, shy and aristocratically unkempt, Euston was very happy not to
be considered "a people person" in business. A man of few words in
public, he gave the impression of being irritated and depressed by
aspects of the modern world, particularly electronic gadgetry.

As chairman of the Turf Club – where he sharpened financial
performance, renegotiated the Crown Estates lease of the club's house
in Carlton House Terrace and negotiated the purchase of a set of
paintings that might otherwise have been lost – he once rejected a
prospective member whose mobile phone rang at the wrong moment. He
also took a dim view of anyone who wore a brown suit in the City,
though he himself wore his grandfather's increasingly threadbare
overcoat.

But behind the somewhat forbidding exterior was a wicked sense of
humour, a high intelligence and a deep loyalty to old friends and his
extended family, the younger generation of which was especially
devoted to him.

In the mid-1990s, Lord Euston took over the management of the
extensive Euston estates near Thetford, which had seen no
modernisation for many years. He took several farms back in hand and –
through the construction of a reservoir for irrigation – brought
previously infertile land into productive use, leased to a commercial
vegetable-growing concern.

A passionate conservationist, he took every possible step to protect
the habitats of wild and rare species; he also greatly improved the
shooting, and its related pheasant- and partridge-breeding operation.

A keen shot himself, he also loved salmon and trout fishing, and
racing at Newmarket. For some years he managed the racing interests of
his brother-in-law Edward St George, who was based in the Bahamas but
had inherited from his brother Charles St George the Sefton Lodge
stables at Newmarket which became the Lucayan Stud.

Among their successful horses were Desert Prince, which won the Queen
Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in 1998, and Bahamian Pirate, winner of
the Nunthorpe Stakes at York in 2004. St George liked to name horses
after friends, so called one Speedy James and another Nobby, an old
school nickname for Euston. When set up for a great betting coup at
Nottingham, Nobby was beaten by a head.

Lord Euston married, in 1972, Lady Clare Kerr, a daughter of the 12th
Marquis of Lothian and sister of the Conservative politician Michael
Ancram; they had a son and four daughters. Their son, Henry FitzRoy,
Viscount Ipswich, born in 1978, succeeds to the courtesy title of Earl
of Euston and is heir to the dukedom.

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[marquess]

Prettty good obituary, does anyone know what he died of, or from?

On 25 Oct, 18:44, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> _.The Earl of Euston, who died on October 1 aged 61, was the heir to
> the Duke of Grafton; having made a successful career as a corporate
> financier in the City, he went on to transform the fortunes of the
> family estates in Suffolk.
>

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/6432353...

[Michael Rhodes]

Earl of Euston. A Memorial Service for the life of James Earl of
Euston will be held in St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk, on Sunday 6th December 2009 at 3.30 p.m. All welcome.

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[Michael Rhodes]

A progressive landowner and racehorse owner, the Earl of Euston, has
died at home, aged 61, after a long illness on the family's estate
near Thetford. The eldest son of the 11th Duke of Grafton, James
Oliver Charles FitzRoy had been running the Euston estate since the
mid 1990s.


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He was born on December 13, 1947 and was educated at Eton and
Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read history.

In September 1972, he married Lady Clare Kerr, daughter of the 12th
Marquess of Lothian, who had also studied history of art at London
University. Their society wedding at the 17th century chapel of
Newbattle Abbey in Midlothian was dubbed Scotland's wedding of the
year and the 600 guests included the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

After completing his studies as a chartered accountant, Lord Euston
had a successful career as a corporate financier in the City with,
among others, Schroders, the merchant bank, and Enskilda Securities, a
well-regarded boutique corporate finance house, and for nine years at
Capel-Cure Myers Capital Management until 1997.

The Euston Estate was where he was happiest. His financial expertise
and innovative thinking propelled its farming into the modern age. A
number of tenanted farms were taken in hand and construction of a
reservoir for irrigation turned previously unproductive land into
profitable enterprises.

Lord Euston was a tall, shy figure but, underneath the protective
shell, he had a highly developed sense of humour and a razor-sharp
intelligence. Nobody was more loyal to their friends and they and his
large family, especially the younger generation were, in turn, devoted
to him.

He was respected for his quiet and effective approach to managing the
extensive Euston estate, which takes its name from the eldest son's
courtesy title.

A keen shot, he improved the pheasant and partridge shooting and he
was also an avid salmon and trout fisherman.

He was also chairman of the Turf Club in London's St James's for a
long period in the 1990s. For some years, Lord Euston managed the
racing interests of Edward St George, his brother-in-law.

Their best horses were Desert Prince, the winner of the 1998 Queen
Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot, Bahamian Pirate, victorious in York's
2004 Nunthorpe Stakes, and Continent, who took Newmarket's prestigious
July Cup in 2002.

He leaves four daughters and his son, Harry, Viscount Ipswich, who
succeeds to the courtesy title of the Earl of Euston.

He is heir to the dukedom, which was created by King Charles II in

1675 for Henry Charles FitzRoy, the third of five illegitimate

children of the king's mistress, Barbara Villiers.

A funeral will take place on Wednesday, October 14, 3 pm at St
Genevieve's Church, Euston. A memorial service will take place in St
Edmundsbury Cathedral on a future date.