William Lee Plunket PLUNKET, British Private Secretary.
Background
PLUNKET, William Lee Plunket was born on December 19, 1864. Son of 4th Baron (Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland) and Anne Lee, daughter of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, Baronet, and sister of Lords Ardilaun and Iveagh (d. 1889); Succeeded father 1897.
Education
Harrow; Trinity College, Dublin (Bachelor of Arts). Honorary Attache to the Embassy at Rome, 1889-1892, Constantinople, 1892. Retired 1894.
Career
Private Secretary to Lords-Lieut, of Ireland, 1900-1904. William Lee Plunket, D.L., Justice of the Peace Company Dublin; Justice of the Peace Company Wicklow; Governor of New Zealand, 1904-1910.
Membership
Clubs: Carlton; Kildare Street, Dublin; Royal St. George’s Yacht, Kingstown.
Connections
Spouse 1894, Victoria Alexandria, y.daughter of Frederick, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, K.P. Heir: Honourable Terence Conyngham Plunket.
Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, cartulary-register 1910; Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, cartulary-register 1905; Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.