The Earl of Portarlington, 7th Earl in the Peerage of Ireland, died 6 October, 2024. He was 86.
Lord Portarlington who had homes in Australia and at Gledswood, Melrose, Roxburghshire, was the 7th Earl (created 1785), and also Viscount Carlow (Peerage of Ireland, cr 1776), and Baron Dawson (Peerage of Ireland, cr 1770).
George Lionel Yuill Seymour Dawson-Damer was born 10 August, 1938, the elder son of Air Commodore George Dawson-Damer, styled Viscount Carlow (born 20 Dec, 1907 - died on active service 17 Apr, 1944), and his wife the former Peggy Cambie (who married 2ndly, 14 Nov 1945 (div. 1956) Peter George Hodges Nugent, of Willards Farm, Dunsfold, co. Surrey; and died 1 Nov 1963), 2nd daughter of Charles Cambie, of Toronto, Canada.
Educated at Eton College, he served as a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II between April 1953 and February 1955. In 1956 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Irish Guards. In 1965 he was appointed a director of G. S. Yuill and Company in Sydney, Australia.
George Dawson-Damer was styled Viscount Carlow from his father's death in 1944 until he succeded his grandfather the 6th Earl of Portarlington in his three peerages, 4 July, 1959.
The 7th Earl married 26 July, 1961, Davina Windley, 1st daughter of Sir Edward Henry Windley KCMG KCVO (1909-72), of Quenington, co. Gloucester, sometime Governor of The Gambia, by his wife Patience Anne Sergison-Brooke, only child by his first wife of Gen Sir Bertram Norman Brooke later Sergison-Brooke KCB KCVO CMG DSO.
The 7th Earl had issue, three sons, (1) Charles, Viscount Carlow (born 6 Oct, 1965), a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II 1979-81; (2) Capt the Hon Edward Dawson-Damer, CVO (born 10 Nov, 1967), Equerry to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1992-1994; and (3) the Hon Henry Dawson-Damer (born 5 Aug, 1971), and one daughter, Lady Marina Davina Dawson-Damer (born 8 Aug, 1969). The eldest son, Charles, now succeeds to his father's three Irish peerages.
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