Background
He was son of Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt and Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie.
He was son of Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt and Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie.
The second world war had a huge impact on the family. Viscount Powerscourt served in the war and was captured by the Germans in Italy. When he came home his health had been compromised and he suffered from shell shock.
Lady Powerscourt had taken the family to Bermuda.
They returned home when he did. He came into his inheritance of the Powerscourt Estate in 1947.
He was appointed the first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of Ireland (British Standards Institution) in 1949.