Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British noble
Sheridan Frederick Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (9 July 1938 – 29 May 1988) was a British patron of the arts. Less formally, he was usually called Sheridan Dufferin.
Childhood and inheritance
Born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family from Ulster, he was the youngest child and only son of Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and his wife Maureen Guinness (daughter of The Honourable Arthur Ernest Guinness, second son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh). One of his sisters was the novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood.
Named after his playwright ancestor Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Dufferin was known by his father's courtesy title Earl of Ava until he succeeded his father in the marquessate in 1945, when he was only six years old. When he was aged 12, trustees acting in his name sold Clandeboye, his ancestral seat, to his estates' company for £120,000 in order "to maintain his station in life", as the trustees allegedly said at the time.
After attending the day school Garth House in Bangor, County Down, he went to Eton College. After Eton, he attended Christ Church, Oxford. A keen shot and sportsman, he played championship tennis at the Queen's Club, but it was at Oxford that he developed a passion for the arts.
Patron of the arts
After Oxford, he met and went into partnership with John Kasmin, and opened the Kasmin Gallery on New Bond Street, London in 1963.
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