Thom's Irish Who's Who/Powerscourt, Viscount

POWERSCOURT, Viscount, and Baron Wingfield (Irld., 1743): Baron Powerscourt (Unit. Kgd., 1885)—Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount, K.P. (1916), M.V.O. (1902); Captain, Special Reserve Irish Guards; Assistant Provost Marshal, 1916; served in Gallipoli, France, and Belgium, 1915, 1917-18; J.P. Co. Dublin, and His Majesty's Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum, Co. Wicklow (1910): Comptroller of the Household to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1906-07; elder son of Mervyn, 7th Viscount, and Lady Julia Coke (Dowager Viscountess Powerscourt), eldest dau. of the 2nd Earl of Leicester; b. 16 July, 1880; s. his father, as 8th Viscount, 5 June, 1904; m. 9 June, 1903, Sybil, second dau. of late Walter Pleydell-Bouverie, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: Powerscourt Castle, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow.