Lady Juliet Tadgell

Lady Juliet Tadgell
Lady Juliet Tadgell
Born	Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; 24 January 1935 (age 89); London, England
Education	University of Oxford (MFA)
Spouses	; Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol; (m. 1960; div. 1972) ; Somerset de Chair; (m. 1974; died 1995) ; Christopher Tadgell; (m. 1997)
Children	Lord Nicholas Hervey; Lady Anne Hervey; Helena Rees-Mogg
Parent(s)	Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam; Olive Dorothea Plunket

Lady Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Tadgell (née Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; born 24 January 1935), previously Marchioness of Bristol, is a British heiress, race horse breeder, and landowner. She consistently appears on the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated net worth of £45 million, based on family assets she inherited in 1948.

Early life and education

Lady Juliet was born to Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, the only son of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, and his wife, Olive Plunket.

In 1943, when she was eight, her father inherited the title of Earl Fitzwilliam, and she became Lady Juliet. By this time, her parents' marriage was strained, and there was talk of divorce. In 1948, Earl Fitzwilliam died in a plane crash in France with his lover, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, the widow of the heir to the Dukedom of Devonshire and a sister of the future U. S. President John F. Kennedy. As her father's only child, Lady Juliet, still aged only thirteen, inherited his whole unentailed estate and his huge art collection. The following year, she and her mother left Wentworth Woodhouse, and most of its contents were sold.^[2]

Lady Juliet holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oxford.

Marriages and family life

In 1960, Lady Juliet married Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, twenty years her senior, eighteen days after he inherited his title upon his father's death. He had been divorced the previous year and, in his twenties, had been adjudicated a bankrupt, declared the "No.1 Playboy of Mayfair", and gaoled for drunken dare jewel robbery. The couple had two children:

Lord Nicholas Hervey (26 November 1961 – 26 January 1998)
Lady Anne Hervey (26 February 1965), stillborn

The couple separated in 1965 and divorced in 1972.

In 1974 she married Somerset de Chair, who was a former Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk and Paddington South. The couple had one child:

Helena Anne Beatrice Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair (b. October 1977), a writer on a trade magazine for the oil industry. She married the Rt Hon Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, future Conservative politician and son of former Times editor Lord Rees-Mogg, on 13 January 2007 at Canterbury Cathedral.^[3] They have six children.

After her second husband's death, in 1997, Lady Juliet married thirdly the architectural historian Christopher Tadgell and lives with him at her estate of Bourne Park, near Canterbury, Kent.^[2]

Her daughter Helena attended the University of Bristol, and her son Nicholas was educated at Eton College, followed by Yale University.

On 26 January 1998, two days after her 63rd birthday, her son Nicholas committed suicide.

Wealth and inheritance

As the only child of the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, Lady Juliet inherited his estates, which have since passed into a trust for her benefit, and include his vast art collection, including four paintings by George Stubbs and six by Anthony van Dyck and properties in England, Ireland and the United States.^{[citation needed]} She consistently makes the Sunday Times Rich List, rising in 2009 to 1550th in the ranking with £35 million, although she suffered a £10 million drop that year because of the recession.^[4] She ran a stud farm and continues to own some racehorses.^[5]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lady Juliet Tadgell

8. William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton

4. William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam

9. Laura Beauclerk

2. Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam

10. Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland

5. Lady Maud Dundas

11. Lady Lilian Lumley

1. Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam

12. William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket

6. Hon. Benjamin Plunket

13. Anne Guinness

3. Olive Plunket

14. Sir Thomas Butler, 10th Baronet, of Cloughgrenan

7. Dorothea Butler

15. Hester Bellingham

References

^ ^a ^b "Court Circular". The Times. 25 January 1935. p. 17.
^ ^a ^b Lady Juliet also owned a large estate in Ireland, Coolattin Park, situated outside the village of Shillelagh in County Wicklow, which had been the seat of the Fitzwilliam family in Ireland since the 17th century. That was sold in 1977, and the famous "Tomnafinogue wood", one of the largest ancient oak woodlands in the British Isles and part of the former Coolattin Estate, is now under state ownership.The DiCamillo Companion Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Tory couple will live at West Harptree" Archived 14 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Chew Valley Gazette, February 2007.
^ Lady Juliet Tadgell Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, the Sunday Times Rich List 2009, 26 April 2009.
^ "Lady Juliet Tadgell – Record By Race Type – Racing Post". Racing Post. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.

[court-1] "Court Circular". The Times. 25 January 1935. p. 17.

[houses-2] Lady Juliet also owned a large estate in Ireland, Coolattin Park, situated outside the village of Shillelagh in County Wicklow, which had been the seat of the Fitzwilliam family in Ireland since the 17th century. That was sold in 1977, and the famous "Tomnafinogue wood", one of the largest ancient oak woodlands in the British Isles and part of the former Coolattin Estate, is now under state ownership.The DiCamillo Companion Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "Tory couple will live at West Harptree" Archived 14 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Chew Valley Gazette, February 2007.

[4] Lady Juliet Tadgell Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, the Sunday Times Rich List 2009, 26 April 2009.

[5] "Lady Juliet Tadgell – Record By Race Type – Racing Post". Racing Post. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.

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