Gustavus Michael George Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Justice of the Peace was an Irish peer, soldier and banker.
Background
He was the son of Honorary Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, oldest son of Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 9th Viscount Boyne, and his wife Joan Verena Lloyd-Verney (1908–1938), only daughter of Sir Harry Lloyd-Verney by his wife Lady Joan Cuffe, elder daughter of Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart.
Education
Eton College; Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Royal Agricultural University.
Career
He was educated at Eton College and went then to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He studied later at the Royal Agricultural College. Boyne was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1952 and retired as lieutenant.
In 1961, he was nominated Justice of the Peace for Shropshire and in 1965, a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county.
He became director of the National Westminster Bank in 1976, leaving in 1990. Boyne was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting in 1981 and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1994, holding both posts until his death in 1995.