Background
GOWRIE, The Earl of was born on November 26, 1939 in Dublin, Eire. Son of The Honourable A. H. P. Hore-Ruthven and Pamela Margaret Fletcher.
company director and parliamentarian
GOWRIE, The Earl of was born on November 26, 1939 in Dublin, Eire. Son of The Honourable A. H. P. Hore-Ruthven and Pamela Margaret Fletcher.
Eton College, Balliol College Oxford and Harvard University, United States of America.
Assistant Professor, Emerson College. Boston 1967-1968; Lecturer in English and American Literature, University College London 1969-1972. A United Kingdom delegation to United Nations 1971.
A Lord-in-Waiting to Her Majesty the Queen 1972-1974.
Government Whip, House of Lords 1972-1974. Consultant, Thomas Gibson Fine Art 1974-1979.
Opposition Spokesman on Economics Affairs and Adviser to Margaret Thatcher 1977-1979. Minister of State, Department, of Employment 1979-1981.
Minister of State and Deputy to the Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office 1981-1983.
Minister of State, Privy Council Office and Minister for the Aids 1983-1984. Minister for the Arts) 1984-1985. Chairman Sotheby"s Institute 1985-1986, The Really Useful Group since 1985, Sotheby’s since 1986.
Provost R.C.A. since 1986.
Of Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (retaining portfolio as Minister for the Arts) 1984-1985.
Married 1st Xandra Bingley in 1962, one son (divorced in 1973). Married 2nd Adelheid Grafin von den Schulenburg in 1974.