Robert Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
New Zealand-British peer (1939–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Charles Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1 June 1939 – 12 June 2021) was a New Zealand-British peer.[1]
The Right Honourable Robert Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | |
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Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | |
Tenure | 1982–2021 |
Predecessor | Edward Edgcumbe, 7th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe |
Born | (1939-06-01)1 June 1939 |
Died | 12 June 2021(2021-06-12) (aged 82) |
Nationality | New Zealand British |
Spouse(s) |
Joan Ivy Wall
(m. 1960; div. 1988) |
Issue | 5 |
Parents | George Edgcumbe Meta Lhoyer |
Edgcumbe was the son of Meta Lhoyer and George Aubrey Valletort Edgcumbe.[2] He was educated at Nelson College from 1951 to 1955.[3] He married Joan Ivy Wall, daughter of Ernest Wall in 1960 and together they had five daughters. They divorced in 1988. The Earl then lived with Beryl Cottrell, from Millbrook who he later married in 2017.[2] He succeeded to his titles in 1982. He was an estate manager in New Zealand. Members of the Edgcumbe family have lived in New Zealand since the 1860s.
The earl and his immediate predecessor both moved to Cornwall on succeeding to the title. The earl's family live in both New Zealand and Cornwall, where he lived in Empacombe House, Cornwall.
Upon his death in 2021, the earl was succeeded by his half-brother Christopher George Mortimer Edgcumbe.