Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways, 8th Earl of Ilchester GBE DL 24 September 1887 – 4 October 1970), was a British peer. He also held the subsidiary titles of Baron Ilchester, Baron Strangways and Baron Ilchester and Stavordale. Fox-Strangways inherited the earldom of Ilchester from Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester, his fifth cousin once removed, after the 7th Earl died without surviving male issue.

Biography

He was the son of Maurice Walter Fox-Strangways CSI (1862–; d. 27 May 1938) and his wife Louisa Blanche Phillips, daughter of Major-General George Phillips.[1] He was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He succeeded to the earldom in 1964.

Marriage and family

On 8 April 1916, Fox-Strangways married Laure Georgine Emilie Mazaraki, daughter of Evanghelos Georgios Mazaraki, an executive with the Suez Canal Company; they had three children:

The 8th Earl died on 4 October 1970 aged 83 and was succeeded in the earldom by his elder son Maurice.

Arms

Arms of Fox-Strangways

The arms of the head of the Fox-Strangways family are blazoned Quarterly of four: 1st & 4th: Sable, two lions passant paly of six argent and gules (Strangways); 2nd & 3rd: Ermine, on a chevron azure three foxes' heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third (Fox).[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Ilchester, Earl of (GB, 1756)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk.
  2. ↑ “Earl of Ilchester” in Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968), p. 607


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