Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon


The Earl of Caledon

Born (1955-05-06) 6 May 1955 (age 66)
Spouse(s)
Wendy Coumantaros
(m. 1979; div. 1985)

Henrietta Newman
(m. 1989; div. bef. 2008)
Amanda Cayzer
(m. 2008)
Children2
Parent(s)The 6th Earl of Caledon
Anne Louise, Freiin de Graevenitz

Nicholas James Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, KCVO (born 6 May 1955), is the son of The 6th Earl of Caledon (1920-1980) and Anne Louise, Freiin de Graevenitz (1927-1963; an heir through her paternal grandmother to the von Siemens fortune).

Life

Caledon was educated at Gordonstoun in Elgin, Scotland. He inherited the title from his father in 1980 and is a Justice of the Peace and has been Lord Lieutenant of County Armagh since 1989.

He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2015 New Year Honours.

He lives at Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Marriages and children

Caledon married, firstly, Wendy Catherine Coumantaros, daughter of Spiro Nicholas Coumantaros, a shipping magnate, on 15 November 1979 (King Konstantínos II of the Hellenes was the best man). They were divorced in 1985 without any issue; his first wife uses the style Wendy, Countess of Caledon.

He married, secondly, on 19 December 1989, the interior designer Henrietta Mary Alison Newman, daughter of John Francis Newman, himself a son of Sir Cecil Newman, 2nd Bt., and they had issue:

  • Frederick James Alexander, Viscount Alexander (born 15 October 1990)
  • Lady Leonora Jane Alexander (born 26 May 1993)

In November 2007, Caledon announced his engagement to Amanda Cayzer, former wife of The Hon. Charles William Cayzer (born 1957), second son of Herbert Robin Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick, by whom she has two children. They were married on 2 February 2008. His second ex-wife is now known as Henrietta, Countess of Caledon, and his third wife Amanda is now the Countess of Caledon.

Heirs in remainder to the earldom

The Earl's only son, Viscount Alexander (b. 1990), is his heir apparent, followed by the Earl Alexander of Tunis and several elder cousins who are in remainder to the earldom created in 1801 for the 'nabob' James Alexander, an Ulster-Scot who rose in a matter of decades from an East India Company clerk to an earldom in the Peerage of Ireland.[citation needed]

Siblings

Caledon has two siblings:

  1. Lady Tana Focke (born 1945), originally named Cayetana for her godmother Cayetana, Duchess of Alba. Lady Tana, a successful fund-manager, is the Earl's elder half-sister by his father's first marriage to Ghislaine Dresselhuys, later Lady Foley. Tana is married to His Honour Paul Focke, and has issue.
  2. Lady (Elizabeth) Jane Alexander, his younger sister (born 1962), who has been married three times. She was married to a medical doctor, John Fitzroy Gillespie MBE JP DL. Lady Jane trained racehorses and died in 2017.

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