John Anthony Brabazon, 15th Earl of Meath (born 11 May 1941), previously known as Lord Ardee, is a British and Irish peer and a landownerinCounty Wicklow. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1998 to 1999.
The son of Major Anthony Windham Normand Brabazon and Elizabeth Mary Bowlby, he was known as Lord Ardee from 1949, when his father became 14th Earl of Meath. He was educated at Harrow School and was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II between 1956 and 1958. In 1959, he was commissioned as a subaltern into the Grenadier Guards and served until 1963.[1]
On 19 December 1998, he succeeded to his father's peerages, two in the peerage of Ireland, Earl of Meath (1627) and Baron Ardee (1616), and one in the peerage of the United Kingdom, Baron Chaworth of Eaton Hall (1831), the last of these giving him a seat in the House of Lords. However, this came to an end when the House of Lords Act 1999 came into effect.[1]
In 1997, Meath was reported to be a writer and speaker on national competitiveness and social decay in the last two decades of the 19th century.[2]
On 12 May 1973, he married Xenia Goudime-Levkovitsch, daughter of Paul Goudime-Levkovitsch.[1] They have three children:
He lives at Killruddery House, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.[1] In 2001, he sold a mountain sporting estate of 4,125 acres at Rathdrum, County Wicklow, for £10 million, but continued to own some 800 acres in the same county, estimated to be far more valuable.[3][4]
| Peerage of Ireland | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Anthony Windham Normand Brabazon |
Earl of Meath 1998– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Anthony Windham Normand Brabazon |
Baron Chaworth 1998– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
