Erne was the eldest son of John Crichton, 5th Earl Erne, and his wife Davina (Davidema Katharine Cynthia Mary Millicent Bulwer-Lytton), a younger daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lytton, and was a godchild of King George VI. He inherited his father"s titles in 1940, a few weeks before his third birthday, when his father was killed in action in the Second World War.
Eton College.
He was educated at Eton. In 1952, he was briefly a Page of Honour to George VI and continued in the same capacity after Elizabeth II came to the throne, until 1954. From 1960-1968, he was a junior officer in the North Irish Horse.
Henry Crichton, 6th Earl Erne, died on 23 December 2015, aged 78.
On 5 November 1958, Erne married Camilla Roberts, a great-granddaughter of wealthy American businessman Marshall Owen Roberts, and they had five children:.
He was a member of the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society and the Royal Forestry Society and was Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh from 1986 to 2012.
