Education
He was educated at Ludgrove School and Institut Le Rosey, Switzerland.
He was educated at Ludgrove School and Institut Le Rosey, Switzerland.
While a schoolboy he was handicapped by polio. He succeeded to the earldom in 1965 on the death of his father, Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven. Lord Dunraven sold Adare Manor and its contents in 1984 to Irish-American businessman Tom Kane, and the manor was converted into the Adare Manor Hotel.
Thereafter he lived with his family in a nearby house called Kilgobbin House.
He was chairman of the Irish Wheelchair Association for two decades. They had one child, a daughter:
Lady Ana Wyndham-Quin (born 1972).
Lord Dunraven died at his home on 25 March 2011, aged 71. The earldom and his other titles became extinct on his death.