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Sunday, March 02, 2025

The 5th Baron Rathdonnell 1938-2025

 The 5th Baron Rathdonnell, of Lisnavagh, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow, died 28 February, 2025. He was 86.

He was educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; Lieutenant, Royal Navy.

Thomas Benjamin McClintock-Bunbury was born 17 September, 1938, son of the 4th Baron Rathdonnell (1914-1959), and his wife the former Pamela Drew (1910-1989); and he succeeded to the peerage (created in 1868), on the demise of his father, 13 October, 1959. 

He married 2 Oct, 1965, Jessica Harriet Butler (born 17 Dec, 1940), daughter of George Gilbert Butler, of  Scatorish, Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny, by his wife the former Noreen Helen Colley (1910-1997), by whom he had issue, three sons, William, George and James, and a daughter, Sasha.

The eldest son, the Hon William Leopold McClintock-Bunbury (born 6 July, 1966), succeeds as 6th Baron Rathdonnell.


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