The 3rd Baron Rathcavan, of Cleggan Lodge, Ballymena, Co Antrim, has died aged 86.
The peer was a businessman and restaurateur behind the Brasserie St Quentin, Knightsbridge, and was a journalist (Financial Times, Irish Times, Observer) and chairman of Northern Ireland Airports, &c.
Hugh Detmar Torrens O'Neill was born 14 June, 1939, son of the 2nd Baron Rathcavan (1909-1994), and his 1st wife the former Clare Désirée Blow (1914-1956), descended from the Tollemache barons; and succeded his father, 20 December, 1994, in the O'Neill baronetcy and as 3rd Baron Rathcavan (Peerage of the UK, created 1953).
He married 28 March, 1983, Sylvie Marie-Thérèse Wichard, daughter of Georges Wichard, of Provence, and former wife of Hilary Chittenden, by whom he had a son and heir, the Hon François Hugh Nial O'Neill (born 26 June, 1984), who now succeeds to the family honours.
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