Nationality British | Name John 5th | |
Born 1 October 1855 ( 1855-10-01 ) Died 5 August 1943(1943-08-05) (aged 87)
London Alma mater Harrow School
University of Dresden Known for Father of the House of Lords Spouse(s) (1) Katharine Buckner Norton, nee McVickar
(2) Alice Jones | ||
John Richard Brinsley Norton, 5th Baron Grantley, FSA, FRNS (1 October 1855 – 5 August 1943) was a British peer and numismatist.
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Early life
Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer. He was educated at Highgate School from 1867 until 1869, and then at Harrow School and the University of Dresden. He inherited his father's title in 1877 and was sometime a captain in the Middlesex Yeomanry.
Estates
Grantley was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Numismatic Society and the British Numismatic Society. He assembled a large collection of coins and also grew orchids. His country seats were Weeke Manor in Winchester and Markenfield Hall in Ripon. He also owned Elton Manor in Nottinghamshire for a time, but seems hardly to have lived there. He purchased the Red Rice estate in 1913.
Family
In 1879, Grantley married Katharine Buckner Norton, née McVickar (died 1897), the former wife of his cousin, Charles Grantley Campbell Norton. She was the daughter of Commodore William Henry McVickar, US Navy, of New York, USA. He married secondly, in 1899, Alice Jones (died 1942), the illegitimate daughter of Thomas Heron Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh. By his first wife, he had six children.
In 1930 he became Father of the House of Lords on the death of Viscount Hereford. On his death in a London nursing home in 1943, his titles passed to his only surviving son The Hon. Richard Henry Brinsley Norton.