Earl of Dunraven
(1812-1871)
3 July 1861

Volume 4, page 165, sitting 4731.

Born Edward Richard Wyndham-Quin on 19 May 1812, he was the elder son of Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father in 1859.

He was educated at Eton and sat in Parliament as the Conservative MP for Glamorganshire from 1837 to 1859, when he took his seat in the House of Lords. He was a convert to Roman Catholicism.

On 18 August 1836 he married firstly Florence Augusta, the third daughter of Thomas Goold, a Master of the Irish Court of Chancery. They had at least eight children, of which two were still-born sons. He married secondly Anne, the daughter of Henry Lambert of Carnargh in the county of Wexford and MP for that county from 1831 to 1835. 'By his first marriage Lord Dunraven had a family of five daughters, and a son, Windham Thomas, Lord Adair, late Lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards, who now succeeds to the family honours as fourth Earl.'

Lord Dunraven died on 6 October 1871 'at Malvern, Worcestershire, where his Lordship had been for some little time residing for the benefit of his health' (Cheltenham Looker-On, 14 October 1871).